Word: flings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couldn't show a woman divorced from one husband, let alone three." In last week's opening episode, Maude had fairly tame set-tos with a door-to-door salesman and a psychiatrist, but her future outings will include a look at legalizing marijuana and a fling at black-radical-chic party giving à la Leonard Bernstein. In one episode not yet okayed by the network, she even gets pregnant and decides to seek an abortion, while her shaken husband looks into the vasectomy market...
...greatest tool-his hand-and his greatest dream -to fly." But even Johnson is hard-pressed to account for the latest development on the Frisbee front. Among the crowds at Copper Harbor was a bevy of "froupies," short for Frisbee groupies. They too seemed to want to have a fling...
Blackmail. Bailley's troubles grew out of his activities with Astrid Lee-flang, an old flame. While she was a student at the University of Maryland, Bailley brought her to his Washington apartment for drinks. Soon Bailley introduced the girl, whom he affectionately refers to as "old Fling Flang," to other men. His relationship with Astrid may have been part of a pattern extending over three years. Some women have testified that Bailley would take photographs of girls in the nude with whom he spent the night and then blackmail them into prostitution...
Counterpointing the realistic presentation of Ruby's fling with Earl Tibbits is the treatment of her niece Vivian, a self-contained, gum-chewing teenager, much closer to Nabokov's Lolita than was Sue Lyon, who played the part in Kubrick's movie. With no claims to any particular beauty or charm. Vivian succeeds--where Ruby doesn't--simply because she is young, because she doesn't care, because she regards adoration...
McGovern turned Lowenstein down, with misgivings. He was up for re-election to the Senate in 1968, and he decided that keeping his Senate seat was more important to the antiwar cause than a hopeless fling at the presidency. Following McGovern's advice, Lowenstein turned to Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota; Robert Kennedy jumped in after McCarthy showed strongly against Johnson in the New Hampshire primary. After Kennedy was shot in California, McGovern pondered and finally announced for President 16 days before the Chicago convention. He wanted to be a rallying point for the pro-Kennedy remnant that could...