Word: flings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many of those robbed and assaulted to press charges after police capture suspects. Since a large number of the suspects are teenagers, most people are reluctant to "get them into trouble." However, Hall says that many of these "youngsters" are not just good kids off on a one time fling. "We're dealing with some pretty hardened juvenile delinquents, a lot of them carrying knives and guns. They're not naive youngsters and we're not going to help them by letting them off easy...
...Kodachrome" is Simon's fling at whimsy, and "American Tune" his cliche. His use of The Onward Brass Band on "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" is a piece of self-indulgent authenticity which is barely necessary. There is a beautifully sung lullaby, "St. Judy's Comet," not really a lullaby at all, rather a hymn to the father who rarely babysits, and actually one of those rolling hills, green fields country songs with throwaway guitar lines. "Was a Sunny Day" seems obligatory, cute and Caribbean in music and tone -- even the phrasing approaches the West Indian lilt...
After three years of just liberated talk to feed on, it seems only logical that Harvard should be desperate for the old, the familiar separations, a richly laid out sexual battleground. And sure enough, last spring in Dunster House the Boys got together for a bachelor fling and acted out this nostalgic retreat--a bunch of stags, drinking it up, chumming it up over dirty stories, studding the egos up with dirty displays, and even making a contest out of it, cross-legged in a large circle so that everyone could hear, on and on until the sordid details were...
Katy's emotional world does not mend appreciably when her son brings home from Harvard an actress with whom he has been sleeping. This free and sexy spirit promptly propositions Jeff, and in his menopausal dither he runs off with her. It is a very short fling. After 25 platonic minutes he is back home, ready for a reconciliation...
...last fling before adulthood closed in? The jobs Fuller held in early manhood might lead one to think so: machine fitter in a cotton mill. Navy ensign during World War I, managing exports for a meat packer and sales for a truck company. The presidency of the Stockade Building System (1922-27) sounds more like it. Fuller and his father-in-law copatented a tough, light substitute for bricks that eliminated the need for hod carriers and mortars. Holes in the blocks were lined up and cement poured in. Both the brick industry and the unions ganged up against...