Word: flings
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Suddenly, they set him free. He has been held, he learns, for 18 days, and he finds he cannot resume his interrupted life. Brigitte is angry at his absence and accuses him of running off for a fling with another woman. When he tries to tell her the truth and shows her his scars as proof, he only confirms her suspicions. But who could be expected to believe his story or grasp his feelings of violation and shame? When he happens to meet a police officer who investigates unsolved crimes, he recounts his experience as if it had happened...
...agile Sakamoto draws on an eclectic background to make this work of solo piano pieces worthy of serious listening, not just aural wallpaper for wine-and-cheese parties. A piano prodigy and student of classical Eastern music, Sakamoto had a brief fling as a Japanese rock star in the 1980s and dabbled in jazz before turning to Hollywood (where his sublime score for The Last Emperor brought him an Oscar). Like all his work, BTTB ("Back to the Basics") searches for common ground in classical, pop and Eastern music. More often than not in this CD of unaccustomed beauty...
...hallway outside my doorway, and then I hear somebody crash into it. Ever seen in the movies where they shoulder-slam against the door to open it? That's what it sounded like. I heard them then running, and I jump out of bed, bare naked, and I fling the door open, screaming 'What the fuck is going on?' and I heard the crash and them running down the end of the hallway. I was about to run after them, but I realized I couldn't exactly run after them--yeah, me running naked after some drunken idiots...