Word: rapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more and who often contribute free legal services to the neediest. Some are respected human rights attorneys, like Miami's Ira Kurzban, who besides conducting his regular private practice has given much time free to defend Haitian boat people. Complains A.I.L.A. Executive Director Warren Leiden: "There's a bad rap against immigration attorneys...
Gorbachev declared that the time had come to "literally rap inefficient executives on the knuckles." One of the first to feel the pain was Victor Fyodorov, 73, Petrochemical Industry Minister for the past two decades, who was taken to task for a "careless attitude." The General Secretary noted sarcastically that Fyodorov had promised "that he would rectify his shortcomings. But evidently he does not keep his promises." The party Central Committee, Gorbachev declared, "has given instructions that the matter should be thoroughly investigated." Few doubted that the veteran bureaucrat was being invited to consider clearing out his ministerial desk...
They could be right. When the Madonna show detonates at about 9 p.m., after a forgettable 30 minutes by a raunchy rap band called the Beastie Boys, the strongest impression is of being back in the '60s, listening to the Shirelles. This is no girl group; Madonna's two backup dancers are male and masculine. But they are small and unmenacing, dressed cheerfully in handpainted jeans and jackets, and when they frisk about the stage with Madonna the mood is light and childish. She wears spiked boots, black fishnet tights and a hip-slung miniskirt below her winking belly button...
Distillers, however, are bitter that federal and state taxes are skewed to hit liquor harder than beer and wine, and they feel the liquor industry is taking the rap for teenage drunk drivers, most of whom, they believe, are blitzed on beer, not hard liquor. The industry is currently challenging the three TV networks, charging that they are violating the fairness doctrine. The networks said no to Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, which wanted to buy 30-second spots pointing out that 1 1/4 oz. of hard liquor contains no more alcohol than a 5-oz. glass of wine...
...House aide: "Reagan's notion of personal diplomacy took off from that meeting." He was nudged along by Wife Nancy, a believer in the irresistible magic of her husband's personality, and by master Image Maker Michael Deaver. Both felt deeply that Reagan's warmonger image was a bad rap...