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Highland's Fling...
Were Sophocles to croon this chorus (from Antigone*) below the boudoir of Existentialist Simone de Beauvoir, she would very likely fling wide her French window and bomb him with The Second Sex (weight: 2¾ Ibs.). For Sophocles' measures stand for just about everything that Author de Beauvoir considers most hateful in human life. As she sees it, the male's conquest of the earth, the sea etc. is just an analogue of his smug conquest of the little woman...
...praise Allah; when she misses a short one, she may exclaim, "I feel like nuts & bolts rattling together." On a hot day, she once gathered a circle of women around her on the golf course while she shed her petticoat; another time she startled the gallery with a highland fling. She once insisted on being paid her tournament money in one-dollar bills ("It makes me feel richer"). She operates like a woman whose life is a constant campaign to astound people...
...flery and fling a stone...
...Company (music & lyrics by Vernon Duke & Ogden Nash; sketches by Charles Sherman & Peter De Vries) brought Bette Davis back to Broadway after some 20 years in Hollywood. But even with her return to the stage marking her first real fling as a comic, it all proved more an occasion than an event. Though Two's Company is not up to sound revue standards, it would very likely prove a satisfying evening if Actress Davis were up to her role. She struggles valiantly, but a big-time revue is too new to her, and comedy doesn't come natural...