Word: flings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Treff found out that he could put Wall Street in an uproar. The Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange and half a dozen embarrassed brokerage firms are investigating his brief fling at Naderism. He has forced the whole brokerage community to question its credit and trading procedures. In a five-week trading binge, Treff bought $200,000 in stock without ever meeting a broker face to face and, more astoundingly, without putting up any money...
...kingdoms of the earlier works. With powerful brevity, Borges limns a decadent nation where language-and all that it implies of hope and beauty -is the execrated enemy. Disdaining vowels, Borges' updated Yahoos grunt only in consonants. When they want to open what passes for a conversation, they fling mud. Their king is protected from mortal corruption by being blinded and castrated...
Golden's advice to long-suffering wives is patience. "Let your husband have his fling," he says. "Tolerate his withdrawal." After the football season is over, Golden reasons, the avid male viewer will return to his family-provided he is not a fanatic for basketball or hockey...
...Clowns" is the first act of the Polinskys' entertainment and, since it's written by Bertolt Brecht, it's also their one fling with a sure thing. Except that "Clowns" as adapted and performed by Theater Two is very minor Brecht indeed. Little more than a commercial of a parable in which it is demonstrated that even when acting under the banner of mutual aid men may actually be out to destroy each other. Case in point, a wooden dummy which the two clowns of the title systematically set about to dismantle. Since it's all over before...
...love is actually a moot point in this film. Antoine's one recorded moment of true passion remains his illicit fling with the shoe-store lady, Fabian Tabard, in Stolen Kisses. The first few notes of the Charles Trenet ballad ("I Wish You Love") that underlined the earlier film sneaks onto the soundtrack of Bed and Board every once and a while- but this time it quickly breaks off into an atonal clanging sound...