Word: flings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only problem with the book is that at times it is pretentious. The whole idea of a Harvard student leaving school to play in the bushes reduces the book in some ways to a fling a la George Plimpton. Wolff always knew that if the Tiger organization released him he could return to Harvard. But what we don't get are any insights into the feelings of a ballplayer who has been five years in the minors with only a high school education and nothing else to fall back...
...Singapore, Rio and Zanzibar) remain. Some time next year, Bing Crosby, 71, Bob Hope, 72, and Lamour will reunite for their eighth cinematic trek, this one titled Road to Tomorrow. Crosby and Hope will portray two grandfathers who grow bored with life and set out for one last fling. And Lamour's role? "Who knows?" says Dottie. "Those two have always treated me like the kid sister. I'm always the last to know...
...father thumped his head on the kitchen floor (making a sound like leather thongs whipping on denim, Daniel says) and chucked him headfirst through the storm door back in Ogden, Utah by his split-ended brown hair that dances half-way down in back in one massive kinetic fling...
Then we lick across the broadness of Nebraska--a monolonous, wide-butted stretch of sod. Smiling, broad curves traced in speed fling us onward, out between trucks that grind the air to a pulp and spit a back on us with 14 gears of churning cunning. Plunging to the depth of America--not East and not West, but vastly in between, we seem perched here forever-about nine hours...
What ensues is not outrage, vituperation or divorce, but smug Shavian homilies on the double standard and the right of women to economic self-determination. Incontestable Constance takes a job as an interior decorator and decamps for a six-week fling with an ardent old beau...