Word: flings
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...even success in Hollywood brings perils, given that it often comes in a flash, from one big hit rather than from building gradually. Suddenly the actor or actress is hot. Everyone wants to be seen with him or her. Clubs and restaurants fling open their doors. Life becomes a celebrity-magazine fantasy, divorced from reality. "It is very hard for someone like that to connect with how they became successful," says Solomon. "You aren't what everyone thinks you are, so you don't believe in yourself. Or you do believe it, and then you have a whole load...
...Alexander Hamilton,” by Ron Chernow. (Penguin Books, 2004). Hamilton paid off his paramour’s husband so the fling could go on. And when faced with charges of adultery, he ‘fessed up without haggling over the meaning of the word ‘is.’ Perhaps the most dapper man to ever hold the position of Treasury secretary—at least until Larry Summers...
According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, while last year’s Spring Fling concert, featuring Sonic Youth, drew no more than 300 audience members, students had already bought almost 800 tickets as of Sept...
...having finished another epic. Thus, in one last effort to make me an athlete, my father bought me a book that fateful summer I abandoned the racket: The Zen of Tennis. Still resting on my bookshelf, it is one of those books that never managed to enter my summer fling radar...
What we know: Hermione is a girl genius with a hot temper. And Ron? Well, Ron's Ron. But after her fling with Viktor, and Ron's with Lavender Brown (in Prince), they get pretty cuddly...