Word: flings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WRONG TO LAUGH AT people's hurt feelings and sense of injustice? Even when those people are perpetually fussed over and paid millions a year? "What is all this about," wonders Mike Medavoy, chairman of TriStar Pictures. He means all the carping about Bill Clinton's fling with Hollywood. Medavoy is earnest and aggrieved, as are all the other wounded show-business Democrats. "What?" Medavoy asks rhetorically. "Bill Clinton shouldn't be talking to stars...
...welcoming spring party," says club president Scott B. Logan '94, "with music and dancing, and maybe people playing croquet, out on the lawn." The club also sponsors a Spring Fling for all students...
Similarly, Eva J. Molnar, a University of Pennsylvania student, says their Spring Fling is a time to forget all worries...
...Sears stores in trouble, the company is getting back to basics by selling its Dean Witter brokerage house and most of its Coldwell Banker real estate firm. Sears is not the only respected name to get burned in the financial-services business; Westinghouse is painfully extricating itself from a fling in that industry that has cost it about $3 billion in losses...
...Snowflake Waltz, without doubt the show's highlight, is performed by this motley assemblage of 22 in an ingenious parody of classical choreography. But instead of the snow drifting down from the rafters, the dancers carry it onstage by the fistful, and each time they jump, they fling it into the air. Silly? Definitely. But like all the best sight gags, it gets more laughs with each repetition...