Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jovial fellow, Hopkins remembers, and often he would offer Hopkins a beer or a cigarette or both, which were the last things Hopkins needed while taking dictation. F.D.R. usually had his own cigarette going, with its long holder tilted up at the jaunty angle that photographers loved to snap. Howe frequently lurked near by with his head in his hands, a gloomy, silent witness to the enterprise...
...gear as a straw hat and Bermuda shorts. The company most responsible for the change is Japan's Canon (1983 revenues: $2.8 billion). In 1976 it brought out a revolutionary model called the AE-1. Containing a built-in microprocessor, the camera made exposure settings a snap. An aggressive ad campaign that used sports stars to tout the AE-l's easy handling helped Canon become a favorite among amateur shutterbugs. More than 8 million of the AE1 series have been sold, helping to make Canon the world's largest producer of 35-mm cameras...
SILVER'S PLOT is thoroughly satisfying, bringing the requisite twists and red herrings to a believable and unexpected conclusion. It achieves some of its snap at the expense of the characters--for the most part a lively gallery of caricatures--and the writing style, which has moments of undeniable clunkiness ("Brian's mental capabilities did not include that of judging what was too obvious to require saying....Sandy gave him a look of hatred.") But because of Silver's lack of pretensions, these shortcomings rarely prove troublesome and sometimes even help. For instance, Lauren's own Bess and George...
...Snap question, no time to think: Which one is Michael Jackson...
...Anna) is about as small-time as Radio City Music Hall. Packing 30 years of Broadway savvy into the frame of a vivacious teenager, the 51-year-old entertainer could by now sell a song to the deaf; she commands the audience like a lion tamer with a whip snap in her walk; and, by the forces of magnetism and sheer will, she eats co-stars for breakfast. Thus it is partly noblesse oblige and partly the instinct for survival that keeps Liza Minnelli (Angel), the bigger box-office attraction, out of Chita's way. Minnelli steps to center...