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...accused of bribery, is demoted to full professor), Benedict Arnold seems to offer Walker an escape from the inconsequence and stuffiness of his existence. By rights, he should feel snootily superior to the joint, pouch his fee, and go back to Nottingham. Instead, the Creative Writing Fellow has a fling at, or with, life. He sheds his tweed for seersucker, tries to shed his wife by cable, swims by night in the buff, grapples with faculty wives, and plays madly on bongo drums. He has no worries except that he is required to sign a loyalty oath...
DEAR JOHN. Swedish Director Lars Magnus Lindgren bases his tender, lusty lesson in love on the urgent biochemistry between a roaming sailor (Jarl Kulle) and a girl (Christina Schollin) having a weekend fling...
...freshman excelled in the weights, and they have all year. Charlie Ajootian's fling of 166' 11" led the Crimson to a sweep in the hammer throw. Henry Bernson took the javelin event easily, and Dick Benka won in the shot put with a toss of 50' 2 3/4"--a new freshman record...
...that the kingdom went bankrupt within seven years. In 1812 he deserted his troops in Russia, and in 1840 he sold his 20-year-old daughter for several million francs to a notorious Russian sadist who tortured her nightly until the Czar intervened. In 1860, after a last grand fling under Napoleon III, Fifi died of a stroke -while gambling...
...cool, though he can easily look squarer than Superman. Passionate self-parody is Marais's gimmick, and he earns a snicker whenever he detours into the arms of that demoiselle-in-distress, Mylène Demongeot, at one point with such fervency that he seems about to fling himself out of a rising helicopter...