Word: stingings
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...bristling with artistic integrity, refused to change a single alexandrine. The play remained locked away. After five years, the playwright had added a few more lines flattering King Louis XIV, although he resisted substantial changes in the nature of the farce. He refused many more times to soften the sting of his wit, which he directed at the church, the aristocracy, the literary establishment--or anyone within reach...
...Sorbonne and washes her face every day with Ivory soap. His voice swoops into baritone breathiness as thoughts pop into his character's mind with the urgency of revelation. Hers is the voice of well-bred reason-behind every line of dialogue there's a Wasp sting. Each actor built a solid reputation in off-Broadway theater; the first film for each was a sophisticated sci-fi horror show (Altered States for Hurt, Alien for Weaver) that exploited the performer's patrician features and willful wit. Now the makers of Eyewitness have conspired to play these...
...Rather than being fast on the draw, they had fast fingers on computer keyboards. The Wells Fargo Bank of San Francisco last week filed suit charging that a group of boxing promoters and a key accomplice inside the bank had pulled off a colossal $21 million embezzlement. The alleged sting was by far the largest computer bank fraud in history and raised some troubling questions: How could such an unlikely ring of conspicuous sports personalities so easily rob a multibillion-dollar bank? How vulnerable is the banking industry to a wave of similar computer capers now that punch cards...
...would roll down your eyes." In a Washington, D.C., courtroom last week, the tears were streaming from his wife Judy's eyes as Kelly, who was voted out of office last year, became the sixth present or former Congressman - and first Republican - to be convicted in the Abscam sting...
...electronic sting with international repercussions: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police joined with the FBI to catch the criminals. By tracing phone calls, they soon got their man. Or rather boys. The culprits, only 13 years old, were four clever students at New York's Dalton School, a posh private institution on Manhattan's Upper East Side...