Word: flings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...music from the concerto, she cannot forget the tragedy that was her past life. Throughout the film different people seek her aid. These include Lucille (Charlotte Very), an erotic dancer who lives downstairs from her, and Olivier (Benoit Regent); Patrice's former associate and a one-time fling of Julie's. Refusing to be drawn from her self-imposed solitude, Julie only concedes to help when an emergency arises with Lucille and she must go to the strip club where the dancer works...
Sarah, an 11-year-old who played second base for one team I coached, was the perfect counterexample to the "fairer sex" stereotype. Sarah would fling her body at ground balls that seemed out of her reach, spit, and power long drives into left-center field for extra-base hits...
...Johnson at a time when he thought he could talk openly and unctuously to the media. His wilder moments, while they were the endless topic of inside gossip and mirth, rarely surfaced in print. That time would end within a few months, but not before he had one last fling at fulsome flattery. From a call to the New York Times' Arthur Krock: "Well, Arthur, you're a mighty wonderful friend . . . and I need you now more than I ever did before, and I read your column just this minute . . . and I just thought how fortunate I was to have...
...school graduate who leaves her native Tennessee town--a place she claims she was lucky to escape without getting beat up or pregnant--to start a new life in Panama Beach City, Florida. She quickly finds a job selling souvenirs at Chamber's Beach Emporium and has a quick fling with the manager's heartthrob, fast-lane-living son Ricky. Ruby senses immediately that he is just the sort of guy she left Tennessee to escape and quickly regroups to examine her priorities. The film is narrated with excerpts from Ruby's diary, which records experiences, the personalities she encounters...
...kept muttering over and over: "I know this is a dream. Seth is not in my room. Please end, horrible dream of mine. Get Seth out of my subconscious room." When finally he resigned himself to the fact that I was indeed in his room, he started to fling old pictures of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at me. I patiently weathered his storm and endured his cursings: I had to know what was going...