Word: flings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's Communist Party in 1921; in Geneva. Driven into Swiss exile by Mussolini's blackshirts for his political activities, Si-lone wrote two bitterly anti-Fascist and well-received novels, Fontamara (1930) and Bread and Wine (1936). Returning to Italy in 1944, he had a second fling with politics, then retired to his writing...
...including more than $400,000 into land development, $378,000 to Marvin's trucking firm and $75,000 for a movie distributing company. She invested $281,000 in Stars over Alabama, a Hamilton amusement park that never opened and mysteriously burned last summer. She even made a brief fling at manufacturing wicker furniture, sinking $14,165 into a company headed by her two children and their spouses...
John Savage, 27, Forman's leading man, agrees. He plays a sober, clean-cut student activist who gets drafted and is brought to today's be-in by freaky friends for a preinduction fling. "The spirit of the '60s is only something to feel good about," says Savage, displaying all the articulateness that distinguished the youth of that period. "These kids ... some of the memories are happy," he adds, and his eyes mist over with happy memories...
...melting into the Stanley Cup playoffs, and the news from Florida is that the Kansas City Royals have a hot rookie named Clint Hurdle, and the Red Sox's aging Luis Tiant has an ailing finger. This week politicians will be appearing at a variety of stadiums to fling out the first balls of the season. Down in Texas, meanwhile, the hard-hitting rightfielder of Houston's Wheatley High returned to action last week after a federal court ruled that Linda Williams, 18, could no longer be banned from the team just because she is female...
...great-blue-heron look of the early '60s has been consigned to outer darkness. Hollow chests have been replaced by noticeable and often visible breasts, and haughtiness by a sometimes even more disconcerting look of warmth and directness. Artificiality is out and naturalism is in: wind machines to fling hair about in a suitably natural manner have become as important as print dryers in the studios of the fashion world's fashionable photographers...