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It’s hard to be smooth in a green blazer and navel-high trousers, but Daniel S. Jacobs ’05 is up for the challenge. Perched on a bench outside Wellesley College’s Spring Fling dance, he draws a cigarette from his pocket and chats with his date. Two of the young woman’s friends approach the bench; there’s only one proper thing for a gentleman such as himself to do. As dusk falls on the campus, the dashing young Harvard man rises to his feet and escorts...
Newly retro in their appearances, Jacobs and Silverman proceeded to the Spring Fling set, where the assistant director paired up men and women, giving each couple a precise location and activity to perform. Silverman’s task—offering to pour his date a glass of punch—was relatively simple, while Jacobs’ required him to smoke several herbal cigarettes from the prop department...
...rural drama "Green Grow the Lilacs." Offered the chance to write that would become "Oklahoma!", Hart sensibly said no thanks. (It's hard to imagine a less Hart-y show.) Did he think Rodgers would drop the project rather than commit professional adultery and go off for a Hammerstein fling? If so, he thought wrong. After the opening-night performance, Hart walked into Sardi's and told Rodgers, "This is one of the greatest shows I've ever seen in my life, and it'll be playing 20 years from now." On the 1998 PBS special "The Rodgers & Hart Story...
Commencement’s last fling with disorder came in the late 1960s, and involved a more serious stance than Commencement carnival’s previous incarnations...
After that come simple cleaning routines that are easy to stick with because they don't take all day. There's the 27 Fling Boogie, where you run through your home with a plastic bag and find 27 things to throw away. Or you spend five minutes cleaning up a particular "hot spot," a place where messes tend to pile up, like the bedside table or the junk drawer in your kitchen. The so-called Weekly Home Blessing Hour is actually 60 minutes of intensive cleanup in which you spend no more than 10 minutes on each area. To avoid...