Word: flings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will help Lamar," said Courchesne, who like Alexander was wearing a red and black plaid flannel shirt. "Let [the other candidates] fling the mud, [Alexander] will walk above them...
...communication honest? Cyberspace is filled with dissemblers who mask their age and even their sex, usually to enjoy, or avoid, the attention showered on women in chat rooms and bulletin boards. A 43-year-old Bostonian who thought he was having a hot fling with a 23-year-old woman discovered to his dismay that "she" was an 80-year-old man in a Miami nursing home...
Observers are not surprised that business is flourishing despite the ominous political situation. "It's one thing to posture, to fling your arms in the air," says Andrew Freris, an economist for Salomon Brothers in Hong Kong. "But trade goes on. Look at the figures, and you say, 'Crisis? What crisis?'" Unfortunately, as history shows, politics usually trumps trade when military passions are inflamed...
That suggests, though it does not prove, that biology will take hold if it possibly can, even under hostile conditions. In fact, biologists have not quite given up on our own solar system yet. They think Mars may have had a brief fling with one-cell life that could have left fossil evidence behind. Some even hold out the hope that microorganisms are still surviving somewhere under the Martian surface. Attention is also turning to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons; its icy white surface could conceal oceans of liquid water, and perhaps some sorts of living organism. Both possibilities...
Columbus sidesteps certain iffy issues raised in the French original--where the man, on hearing of his impending fatherhood, says to his girlfriend, "I have the honor to ask you to have an abortion," and later has a sexual fling on the side--for more general, genial comedy. The movie also gets unwontedly frantic toward the end, with slapstick brawls and auto injuries. (Note to Hollywood: Can you outlaw funny car crashes, starting right now?) But the film has a cleverness that is as irresistible as it is predictable, and Grant eventually looks comfortable in the main role...