Word: flings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike "crazy socks," last winter's fun fling, baglets are selling mostly to fashion-conscious women between the ages of 20 and 40. They should be around, say department-store buyers, at least until next spring. New York Designer Albert Capraro is so confident of the vogue that he has designed minis for tunics, jumpsuits, sundresses, pajamas and long gowns. "They are very sexy," he says. "Toward evening when they are slung lower on the hips, they are even sexier...
...Boston Marathon of the rowing world, featuring rowers from across the land coming out of their shells to pull the ol' Pocock for a final fling. It's 2830 oarsfolk, almost 600 of them women, all on hand to cruise the Charles for the eleventh annual running of the Head of the Charles Regatta. The three-mile affair kicks off tomorrow morning at the crack...
...only problem with the book is that at times it is pretentious. The whole idea of a Harvard student leaving school to play in the bushes reduces the book in some ways to a fling a la George Plimpton. Wolff always knew that if the Tiger organization released him he could return to Harvard. But what we don't get are any insights into the feelings of a ballplayer who has been five years in the minors with only a high school education and nothing else to fall back...
...Singapore, Rio and Zanzibar) remain. Some time next year, Bing Crosby, 71, Bob Hope, 72, and Lamour will reunite for their eighth cinematic trek, this one titled Road to Tomorrow. Crosby and Hope will portray two grandfathers who grow bored with life and set out for one last fling. And Lamour's role? "Who knows?" says Dottie. "Those two have always treated me like the kid sister. I'm always the last to know...
...father thumped his head on the kitchen floor (making a sound like leather thongs whipping on denim, Daniel says) and chucked him headfirst through the storm door back in Ogden, Utah by his split-ended brown hair that dances half-way down in back in one massive kinetic fling...