Word: zinging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican moves like those that Democrats see their chance to lure the middle class back to their side. But for Clinton it's still one thing to zing the other party, another to mount the barricades. On his road show last week, whenever he mentioned that the Republican tax cut would go disproportionately to rich people, he added that "to be fair, some of [them] haven't asked for it.'' (A prudent qualification, given that each night he was raising millions of dollars at party fund raisers from well-off contributors.) The line that came to him most naturally...
...twelve songs of Dog Man Star comprise a complicated orchestral departure from the band's first album, Suede. Due to a legal tiff, the band had to add the "London" to the more catchy zing of just Suede...
...understands why Hank Brown has decided to make Sam Brown his nemesis. The Senator insists it is because Sam Brown isn't qualified and has no military experience. But other CSCE ambassadors had no military experience either. Some think Hank Brown simply wants to zing the President, refight the Vietnam War and triumph over an old rival. (Sam Brown was treasurer of Colorado; Hank Brown was a member of the state legislature...
...Firm was one of those "it-kept-me-up-all-night" page turners for which there is no equivalent in movie hype. "I sat all the way through it" just doesn't have the same zing. But that is what to expect from the film of The Firm, which clocks in at 2 1/2 hours -- barely shorter than the audiocassette version of the novel. It's more bustle than brio...
...capture America's sexual zeitgeist, Friday maintains that women's erotic fantasies spurn comfortable settings, clean sheets and non-felons in favor of German shepherds, enemas and shackles. The author may have intended to provide an aphrodisiac with her pseudoscientific survey, but it comes off with all the zing of an affidavit -- and one that lacks the ring of truth...