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...example. But the movie is played for laughs, and in the end stenovirtue triumphs when the underlings reorganize the office to make it function better bossless. Setting aside what Fonda calls "egos and insecurities," the three actresses are getting along famously. Says Parton, who is taking her first fling at the flicks: "I always heard that making movies was hard. But if all of them are like this, I'm going to love...
...hero this time is Adam Munro, a British spy working under cover in his nation's embassy in Moscow. Pretty straight arrow this Munro, all the right schools, the right background, except for a short, passionate fling with a Russian beauty during the Berlin crisis. But she "slipped back into the East through the last uncompleted section in the Wall, sad and lonely and heartbroken--and very, very, beautiful." Never to be seen again. Suuuuure...
...with dark prophecies. In 1972 the Club of Rome proclaimed "the limits to growth." Economist Robert Heilbroner preached the Hobbesian nightmare, hell on earth as resources vanish and social systems deteriorate. Another economist, Harvard's Wassily Leontief, gave the world only 20 years for a kind of last fling before its primary sources of energy are exhausted. That was the apocalyptic streak...
...first approaching a role, "you fling yourself at it," Hughes said. "I have a tendency at rehearsals to be willing to try anything, hoping it will lead me to something I find useful...
...satisfied; they reported almost twice as much guilt as men. Spanier says that might prove one of two things: either women express their sexual needs better, or "they may tend to label relationships with greater intensity." Translation of option two: women may make too much out of a simple fling...