Word: flings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corona. He played upon it like a flamboyant pianist. Now he massaged the keyboard tenderly through a quiet phrase, now he banged it operatically, thundering along to the chinging bell at the end of the line, where his left arm would abruptly fire into midair with a flourish and fling home the carriage return...
...motive looms large in Abyssinia. At the end of the first act (which runs for a marathon 90 minutes), cliff-hanging questions remain: will capitalism turn the sandy Solong into an OPEC nightmare? Will the big-hearted Celia Lips be able to stop the evil Ahab and his mercenary fling, the Countess? Will the Sultan ever discover his own hormones? And will the overfed Ethel land a job with the Chicago defense...
More important, the anthology shows have largely delivered on their creative promise: they have brought imagination, excitement and stylistic diversity to weekly series fare. The clinkers may outnumber the winners by a wide margin, but the high points--many from feature directors taking an unaccustomed fling at TV--have been worth waiting for. John Landis, director of the dismal Christmas release Spies Like Us, managed to pack far more laughs into his wacky episode of George Burns Comedy Week, about a small town that tries to win federal disaster aid by faking an earthquake. Joe Dante's best work...
Ryan--more mobile than his senior partner though a worse passer--and Curtin combined to fling a team-record 44 passes...
Signoret's autobiographical works filled in the details of a personal life whose outlines were already well known. Divorced from Director Yves Allegret in l949, she married Actor-Singer Yves Montand two years later. Despite Montand's well-publicized fling with Marilyn Monroe in 1960, the couple were together for 36 years. "I love her more than ever today," Montand told an interviewer in 1972, "because she is a woman of extraordinary vitality and enthusiasm...