Word: stings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Budget, have said that the Administration is preparing a package of as yet unspecified "contingency spending plans" that would be used if the slump became long or deep. Meanwhile, Ash and other officials have been carefully leaking budget figures in advance to prepare the public and remove the sting of the first U.S. budget ever to exceed the $300 billion mark...
...years before the bees hit the U.S." This rather anticlimactic tale could well be a metaphor for the paper that carries it in its first issue, appearing on newsstands this week. The tabloid weekly National Star is arriving with a loud promotional buzz, but there is not much editorial sting in sight...
...longer seems able to "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," and Frazier has passed that point in his career when he reigned as the most intimidating boxer to step into the ring since Liston...
This isn't a movie, it's a recipe. The people who put The Sting together followed the instructions on the Butch Cassidy package: one Paul Newman, one Robert Redford, a dash of caper. Stir in the same director, if available...
...Sting was not made to be taken seriously, but many people may find it difficult even to enjoy the movie casually. It lacks the elements that could have given it true drive: a sense of an urban underworld, or of the Depression that sucked so many people into it; an understanding of the con man's pathology that goes beyond surface style and patter; a story that depends not on plot twists but on characters. The movie ends up with a lot of expensive sets and a screenful of blue eyes...