Word: flings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memorable; the staging is mishandled. In the prison cell, Creon paces to within a foot of Antigona, who is squatting in defiance. It is unlikely that a man in Creon's position would not have kicked her. Further: the crowd shuffles around forgettably and the yellow journalists fling themselves across stage in a clumsy flock. Their flutter emphasizes the parody but dissipates the tension...
...song, features liquid blips and electronically muted drums. It also boasts the hoarse background vocals of Iggy Pop, Bowie's personal Panic from Detroit. (Iggy, of Iggy and the Stooges, is famed on the punk-rock circuit for a favorite performance stunt: he would smash bottles on stage and fling himself upon them, frequently being hospitalized after gigs. Perhaps this explains the song about "Breaking Glass.") Despite the efforts of Iggy, Eno and company, "What in the World" is repetitive and uninteresting...
...married a Ceylonese track star known as "the fastest man in Asia." Unhappily, says Rosemary, he often sprinted after other women. At 28, she packed up her two daughters and took off for London, there to try the flamboyant high-and-low life her heroines always have a fling at. One day a middle-aged multimillionaire offered her a fancy flat in Paris and a huge allowance, but Rosemary had already fallen for a black G.I. named Leroy Rogers. "He was the first man," she recalls, "who made me feel like a real woman...
...woman with large eyes and elegant cheekbones. The daughter of a French aristocrat and a White Russian emigré, she lived in Paris as a child, moved to the U.S. in 1941, went to a fashionable New York girls' school (Spence) and Barnard. After college she had a fling in Paris, then returned home and settled down to life in the country with her painter husband and two sons, now 15 and 16. A sporadically lapsed Catholic, Mrs. Gray demonstrated against the war in Viet Nam, was busted, got involved with the Berrigan brothers and wrote Divine Disobedience...
...contrast, Mondale runs a much more relaxed operation. Having abandoned his own fling for the presidency in 1974 because, as he frankly admitted, he lacked the "overwhelming desire" to fight for the office, he is at ease as Carter's lieutenant. Both men are from small-town backgrounds; both are populists with an instinctive aversion to power elites...