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...well as obscure books she felt deserved attention, such as Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier, the manuscript of which was languishing in a Kansas library until she took an interest. She made something of a crusade for Edvard Radzinsky's The Last Tsar, getting what Rubin calls her SWAT team of assistants to promote the book. Most days she lunched at her desk on carrot and celery sticks. Says Doubleday associate publisher Marly Russoff: "It was always a shock for the first few times when you'd pass her in the hall. She's sort of an icon...
Revelatory and, in Rundgren's solo concerts, running amuck. Perched on a small platform beneath 24 blinking video monitors, he sings and "plays" his Apple Powerbook 170 laptop computer, a synthesizer and occasionally even a guitar. Audience members can sing along or swat drum pads and see their images recorded and played back at them, mixed, enhanced and amplified in a potentially infinite variety of ways by Rundgren. There is no set list or running order, no lighting or sound technician; Rundgren, a New Age Wizard of Oz, does...
...member team--including a special response, or SWAT, team and Cambridge, Somerville and state police--captured the murderers at their hideout at 46 Spring St., East Cambridge on Wednesday...
...captain is a nervous Nellie who can't make a decision without the approval of his protective aide-de-camp. One sentimental cop causes a ruckus when he takes to bestowing kisses on his partner. A crazed gunman barricades himself inside a building and holds off a SWAT team but seems at a loss to explain why. "I want you to send somebody in," he finally calls out, "to help me think of my demands." Even odder, all of this doesn't blast away at viewers with the firepower of a typical sitcom Uzi; devoid of a laugh track...
...friend of mine and I recently had a disagreement about the way a man hits a woman. You can't punch her, he said (that gesture being reserved for man-to-man combat), nor can you slap her (that's effeminate). Instead, you swat her with the back of your hand. Interesting, I said. It's like hitting a dog with a bit of rolled-up newspaper. I began to get excited, thinking that maybe I had found a thesis topic. When women slap one another, I said delightedly, they are still retaining face-to-face communication. When...