Word: whacking
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...acting is competent, with Young Lee giving a particularly hilarious performance as the Bailiff, who marches up and down the aisles harassing audience members, occasionally pausing to whack Roulleau with his baton. His presence, at once menacing and amusing, keeps the audience on its toes. As the theatergoer who must suffer for our sins, Roulleau at first nonchalantly flouts the court's authority, making the audience wonder whether he really has been chosen as a random victim. Farley brings a slightly over-the-top vehemence to the role of Clamence...
Competitors of Toys "R" Us have been slapping the retail giant silly in recent years. Last week the Federal Trade Commission took a whack, ruling that Toys "R" Us had illegally forced such manufacturers as Mattel and Hasbro to withhold their products from warehouse clubs like Costco. The FTC barred Toys "R" Us from blacklisting toymakers for selling to low-price clubs. The company says it will appeal...
...name of the game on Saturday was freshmen when Columbia came to Cambridge. The Crimson fielded all 15 players during the match, five of which were freshmen who received considerable action. Crimson Vincent Levy WHACK: The Crimson netters slammed its Ivy competition this weekend "The freshmen are just as good as anyone else," Lopez said. "I don't feel like I'm leading. They're focused, I'm focused, and we all want the same thing...
...Master Meanie David Fincher (Seven). The writers are John Brancato and Michael Ferris, who threw Sandra Bullock into The Net. And the star is Michael Douglas, who has built a healthy career (Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, Disclosure) playing bright, smuggish organization men for whom everything spins horribly out of whack...
Trumbull, a pro-spanking partisan, adds that he favors corporal punishment only as a last resort, after putting a child on time out--a few minutes of inactivity--then warning him or her that the next miscue will bring a whack. Still, he says, punishment should be limited to one or two mild slaps on the buttocks. His views are widely shared. More than two-thirds of pediatricians in recent polls approved parental spanking in certain situations...