Word: flings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back from the wars, Gianni chose to follow some of his grandfather's advice: "Have a fling for a few years to get it out of your system...
After a lonely Irish boyhood, and a top British school (Clifton), Cary had a futile three years' fling as an art student in Paris and Edinburgh before entering Oxford. Once there, he gamely tried to disguise his bohemian artist's vocation beneath a carapace of casual tweed, but only succeeded in proving that academies are not sound judges of literary talent. He got an almost unheard-of fourth-class honors...
...Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and is famed as an actress for her performance of Greek and Shakespearean drama. Now 70 and living in Southern California, Dame Judith Anderson has decided to take a fling at a slightly different role. In A Man Called Horse, she plays a Sioux squaw-even speaks her lines in the Indian language. The film stars Richard Harris as a British nobleman who is captured by the Sioux and given to Dame Judith as a beast of burden. "I shouldn't call it a Western," she explained. "Dramatically...
Without any additional thrust, Apollo's own momentum and the weak lunar gravity would combine to carry it around the moon and fling it back toward earth in a spatial version of crack-the-whip. Indeed, if a recheck of systems and equipment convinces ground controllers and the astronauts that serious problems have developed, the crew will merely continue in this new course and travel back to earth. But if everything seems all right, Apollo's powerful SPS (service propulsion system) engine will be fired for 246 sec. to slow the spacecraft and allow it to be pulled...
...York City Police Department. As head cop in the bohemian quarter of Manhattan's Lower East Side, Fink mans a little-known frontier of the law: preventive enforcement. At a time when young nonconformists tend to see cops as oppressors, call them pigs to their faces and even fling excrement at them, Fink stands all but alone as a policeman who has learned how to handle the discontented young...