Word: flings
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...just those four years of school. By the time we’ve entered college, we are too old for a relationship to have any significant formative impact on our lives. And, apparently, we are too young and unworldly to commit ourselves to anything more permanent than a mere fling. (My mother can adeptly deliver the rationale behind that...
DIED. PAULINE KAEL, 82, passionate, pugnacious, widely influential film critic; in Great Barrington, Mass. Kael began writing about movies in the San Francisco Bay Area before serving as the New Yorker's film critic from 1968 until her retirement in 1991 (with a one-year break for a fling at Hollywood producing). In her colloquial, compulsively readable prose, she punctured the pretensions of arty classics from Hiroshima, Mon Amour to 2001: A Space Odyssey; championed such American filmmakers as Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma and Robert Altman; hailed Last Tango in Paris as a cultural event to rival Stravinsky...
...Their conclusion: The racing legend was the victim of a disastrous chain of events. He hit the wall at 160 mph, just milliseconds after his car was hit broadside - and to top it all off, his seatbelt ripped apart during the crash. Those events conspired to fling the unprotected back of Earnhardt?s head against the steering wheel, the support behind his seat or both...
...chaos. You may shake them off, but you won't escape being stung at the ticket counter. Foreigners are expected to pay $20 rather than the 40 fee for Indians. Slouching by the gates, bored-looking policemen and Archaeological Survey of India officials occasionally rouse themselves to fling boorish accusations at anyone looking like an out-of-towner. They harass and demand identification from one Indian dressed in Western clothes. Another man, insisting he is from the southern state of Kerala, gives up and pays extra...
...presentation to the public. Among its key elements: having Cheney make the announcement--to demonstrate that he's in charge of his health care--and arranging a wide-open press conference after Saturday's procedure, in which Cheney's doctors would take questions for as long as reporters could fling them. Says Matalin: "The more information, the better...