Word: flings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigadoon has a remote, wistful, storybook air. Not the least storybook part of it, naturally, is a romance between one of the Americans and a Brigadoon lass. (The other American just has a comic Lowland fling with a friendly baggage.) But Brigadoon mainly seeks to sustain a mood. The atmosphere of a fair is more important than who buys or sells, the ceremonial of a wedding more important than who gets married. And the music that runs through Brigadoon avoids sharp contrasts; much of it seems like variations on some nostalgic old Scottish tune. (But two or three pleasantly sentimental...
Paradoxically, commodity prices, which had temporarily leveled off in January, were on the rise again. (Hogs reached this week the alltime high of $29 per cwt.) But the rise was viewed by economic crystal gazers as a last fling before prices settled down, as a result of temporary factors (bad weather and large Government grain purchases for export) rather than any new inflationary steam. At "the speed with which industry was spouting out goods last week, the time when supply would meet demand in most things-and when prices would settle down for good-did not seem...
Leopold was a man of many amours, and he took them the way a child eats candy. But his infatuation for Cléo caused as big a buzz as Ludwig of Bavaria's fling with Lola Montez. Proletarians denounced it in dingy bistros, and bourgeois canvassed it dreamily on the conjugal couch. Cléo became almost as scandalous as conditions in the Congo rubber jungles, which Leopold had also bequeathed his country. The king's enemies, of whom he had many, called him "Cléopold." L'affaire Cléo enlivened the otherwise boring...
...Wollaston, Massachusetts, Miss Gordon's play tells, with rich local color, the story of her early passion to be an actress and of how she convinced her parents to let her have a fling at it. The play has humor, pathos, and great insight into both parents and daughter. In addition, it never degenerates into a period version of "Junior Miss" or "Kiss and Tell." This is no small accomplishment considering that the girl connives behind her father's back, has two adulating friends who are as interested in her problems as she is herself, and repulses all advances made...
...fling passes and dash the ball...