Word: flapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prologue announces that "this picture symbolizes the widespread immoral conduct prevalent among our young, presenting its facts with brutal significance." What the moviegoer actually gets is a fitfully funny knockabout with an ancient theme, the falling-out of thieves. Three young punks (Jean Claude Brialy, Laurent Terzieff, Franco Interlenghi) flap-foot about Rome, trying to sell some stolen guns (their fence is busy with a funeral), trying to cheat some prostitutes (the girls cheat them), trying to betray one another, trying to impress someone (they don't impress anyone...
...current flap over the sudden awakening of these men to the un-American nature of their clubs seems to smack more of the old grandstand play than of any enlightenment...
...ambitious West German diplomat more or less went into business for himself last week and created a major international flap over Berlin. Bonn's Ambassador to Moscow is stocky little Hans Anton Kroll, 63, a brusque, elbowy diplomat who is widely disliked in the diplomatic world for such incidents as calling the Japanese "half apes," or using embassy secretaries as waitresses at cocktail parties. More seriously, Kroll plugs German rapprochement with Russia. "We must take the détente bus before it leaves with out us," he insists. "We must establish good enough relations with Moscow so that...
...gave it to Harry Truman when Rayburn rejected it. "I'd rather be Speaker than any ten Senators," he sometimes said. "I love the House." It was a love that stretched back to early boyhood. As a suntanned youngster in Bonham, Texas, he peeped under the flap of a fairground tent and, with thumping heart, listened to the thunderations of Joe Bailey, a hell-for-leather Congressman. That did it. Later, Sam confided his ambitions to a brother: "I'm going to make a lawyer and go to Congress...
...appeared in a Venetian gondolier's outfit and a red Catalan cap, began splashing brown and gold paint on a canvas with such vehemence that he spattered the astonished audience below. With a flourish, he ripped the canvas open-and out flew a dozen frightened homing pigeons, to flap about looking wildly for their cote...