Word: whack
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...Lord. Politics and pop culture do not mix. Look what happened to Barbara Streisand, Warren Beatty! They're laughing stocks. All I have to say, Diva, is that someone should have grabbed the cane Gwyneth was walking on because of her broken toe and given her a big fat whack...
...only a short step from here to a world in which first-graders sue parents for sending them to bed after dinner? Probably not, if only because the court's ruling is so entirely outside the general trend of law in this area. The ruling is "out of whack," says professor Martin Guggenheim, who specializes in children's law at New York University. "A child can't go to the dentist without permission, can't have any kind of emergency surgery, can't choose school, religion, clothing, housing. If you took this ruling to its logical extension, a child would...
...appalling thing is how out of whack our student-faculty ratio is compared to other law schools," Cooper says...
...Yards is currently bobbing. Directed by Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinny), it's a story more machined than created, in which Oz Oseransky (Matthew Perry), an innocent Canadian dentist, gets involved with a semiretired mob hit man (Bruce Willis) and a legion of his former colleagues who want to whack Willis for ratting out their boss. Somehow Oz survives, and gets the gunman's gorgeous ex-wife (Natasha Henstridge) for good measure...
...this time it wasn't so funny. Boston Bruins defenseman Marty McSorley, apparently forgetting he didn't play baseball, raised his stick in the air as if it were a bat and swung at Vancouver Canucks left wing Donald Brashear's head. The egregious (though not entirely unprecedented) whack-heard-round-the-world left Brashear unconscious and twitching on the ice for about 10 minutes, blood streaming from his face. Paramedics had to take Brashear off the ice since he still could not walk. The consequences seemed obvious: Both men would miss games, one from suspension and one from injury...