The rear door of a taxi is slammed about 120 times a day, said Mr. Sherman.
At the recent Friday poetry slam, about 120 people crowded around tables and lined the bar: college-age, beer-drinking, well-behaved Latinos, blacks, whites and Asians.
Our guide, comfortable on the terrain and not wearing a seatbelt to prevent his body from slamming about, seemed at ease yet anxious to see his land again.
In 2007, Nick Hornby published Slam, about a teenage skateboarder.
Bernard Tomic, whose own list of indiscretions include two cases of speeding, not trying in matches and quarrelling with officials at his home Grand Slam about scheduling, acted fine himself on court against Becker.
Arguments about cultural differences, cultural imperialism, race, freedom of speech, the political power of language, the place of music and the meaning of lawn ducks… week after week, month after month, the table-slamming about hip-hop and rap went on, all to the soundtrack of some of the most exciting music I'd ever heard.
This car does get the same, four-wheel independent suspension design as the stock Impreza, but the WRX STi is slammed about a half-inch closer to the pavement, and gets meatier aluminum front lower L-arms and inverted struts at all four wheels, which are said to resist bending forces under hard cornering more ably than struts set in their usual, upright position.
Performing on Monday night's "Tonight Show," Samuel L. Jackson put all his badass Nick Fury 'tude into a poetry slam about the classic 1990s TV sitcom.
"The Grand Slams are about five sets," Hewitt said.
"Here's the reality: as you look back on your time on the pro circuit as a pro player, you think about the Slams, you think about the Davis Cup and then you think about everything else in a pile.
