Word: flinging
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...When an envelope bears the old university's return address, it gets handled like a ticking bomb. Groans go up from the Greek chorus at letters beginning, "When you return in September, you will be serving on the following committees . . ." As if having a last fling, William Leuchtenburg, professor of American history at Columbia, is playing hooky from his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Supreme Court to do a guest shot as color commentator for a local baseball team, the Greensboro Hornets. Red Barber, meet your New York exchange student...
...incompatibility with the rude dailiness of life. Truffaut believes true romance can last only as long as a fleeting, stolen kiss, but, even so, he is not a weary pessimist. Each time Antoine (the ever boyish Jean-Pierre Leaud) picks himself up off the floor for another doomed fling, it is a victory of the spirit. The best Doinel movies, The 400 Blows and Stolen Kisses (1968), are among the most hilarious and disturbing film comedies ever to chart the vicissitudes of human passion...
...Ramones, with their new album Road to Ruin, certainly reek of the back alleys and cheap drugs that keep them well on the punk side of the new wave. But if Vicious's last fling hides Road in the wreckage it will be quite a loss, for this latest release is the perfect album to let loose--loud--on your turntable for those moments when Fleetwood Mac just can't soothe your soul...
...Then fling them yet further, to Seidman and Swanson...
...weekend motorists have had to cruise endlessly before finding a vacant space in shopping-center parking lots. But retailers still do not have a feel for how much the public will buy in a season of inflation-pinched pocket books and recession fears. Though some detect a one-last-fling attitude on the part of customers, many merchants have been notably cautious in stocking up, largely because high interest rates make borrowing to carry a large inventory too much of a risk. Says Leonard Lauder, president of Estée Lauder Inc., Revlon's toughest rival in the high-priced...