Word: flings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...socks away his money, partly in banks in the Cayman Islands, and lives quietly in the apartment in Mountain View, Calif. But in September 1981, he seeks out an American attorney and arranges to meet him in a piano bar called The Fling. Identifying himself only as "Jay," the engineer starts telling his story over Bloody Marys and proposes a deal: if the attorney, William Dougherty, can win a promise of immunity from the U.S. Government, the engineer will turn double agent and pass information on Polish-KGB espionage to the American...
...competition. Since SNC's debut, ABC, CBS and NBC have added a to tal of 33 hours a week of late-night and early-morning news shows. Thus, says Ritchie, "the availability of commercial time in broadcast news about doubled." His wry summation of SNC'S costly fling: "Our contribution has been to increase network news coverage...
Sunset Boulevard (Paramount) is a story of Hollywood, mostly at its worst, brilliantly told by Hollywood at its best. A daring film by ordinary movie standards, it is the last collaborative fling by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder at a specialty they have made their own: playing hob with convention and getting away with it. It also brings Actress Gloria Swanson back to the screen, after a nine-year absence, in a performance that puts her right up in the running for the first Oscar of her 37-year career...
...proverb," said Cervantes, "is a short sentence based on long experience," and to prove it he had Sancho and his paisanos fling those sentences around like pesetas: "There's no sauce in the world like hunger"; "Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last"; "Patience, and shuffle the cards." His English contemporary was of two minds about folklore, as he was about everything. Hamlet disdains it: "The proverb is something musty." Yet the plays overflow with musty somethings: "Men are April when they woo; December when they wed"; "A little pot and soon...
Like any other person in public life, Volcker has his detractors. He has been faulted for going along with Carter's disastrous fling with credit controls in early 1980 and for sometimes permitting the money supply to swing wildly. Asserts Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman, who maintains that steady and predictable money growth is the key to economic health: "There has been more volatility in the money supply in the past three years than in any previous three-year period...