Word: wallop
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True, no group more richly deserves to be so assaulted than the tobacco industry, which has filled cemeteries by linking cigarettes with images of health, sophistication and sexuality. But what of an emotional wallop delivered on behalf of causes you may not agree with at all? Suppose another candidate told a story about his sister, driven to suicide after losing her business to the persecution of the Federal Drug Administration, and thus argued for the agency's abolition? Or take a real instance: when the Bush campaign in 1988 speared Dukakis with the story of a horrible crime committed...
Such tableaus, breaking through the crust of American denial and euphemism about old age, madness, sex and death, packed a wallop 30 years ago, and still do today. It's not surprising that the Kienholzes' work was more popular in Europe, particularly Germany, than in their native America: Americans have never had much appreciation of satire, especially in the visual arts. Even today Kienholz's detractors think he was practicing some kind of anti-Americanism (along with the rest of the godless liberal queer whiners favored by the National Endowment for the Arts, natch). Actually, he was at least...
...National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) warned Friday that air bags can be lethal to children who aren't wearing seat belts. "This is not a false alarm," reports TIME's William McWhirter. "These airbags pack quite a wallop. Small children who aren't strapped in are very vulnerable to trauma from the impact of both the crash and the airbag. Common sense should tell parents to keep children out of the front seat, anyway." The NHTSA is investigating the car accident deaths of six children - ages four to nine - to see if their injuries were caused by inflating...
...they could speak to him during his visit. (Only 18 percent liked the idea.) If Gingrich were in the race right now, he would place fourth at only 5 percent -- far behindBob Dole, and trailingPat BuchananandSen. Phil Gramm. Meanwhile, a new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll suggests thatPresident Clintonwould wallop Gingrich in a national face-off, 55 percent to 28 percent...
...journey into daze, Clark and screenwriter Harmony Korine have worked at numbing the viewer with scenes of anomic decay. It's not the rough huff of the sex play with girls who look to be on the green side of puberty, though these trysts pack their own sick wallop. It's the throwaway brutality (the kids beating up a black man in the park), the notion that the world is there to be spat at or pissed on. In one of the lighter moments, Telly's pal Casper (Justin Pierce) dips a tampon in a red fruit drink, then sucks...