Word: flippantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...previously indecipherable "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" is actually a homophone for a recurrent voodoo phrase. On the subject of black magic, there's a great quote from Richards gleaned from the Daily Mail, which deflates Sanchez's allusions to the Stones' warlockery and epitomizes to the Stones' flippant attitude toward the press...
...thorn from Britain's side once described himself as "a product of privilege." Indeed, Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 60, sixth Baron Carrington,* bears all the hallmarks of his patrician heritage: urbanity, erudition and an icy self-assurance sometimes bordering on arrogance. He has, says a friend, "that aristocratic, flippant manner that makes him free of inhibitions or a sense of inadequacy." Though he has never held elective office, the trim, impeccably tailored Carrington is regarded as a consummate politician. He has more governmental experience than anyone else in the Thatcher Cabinet-"more than all of us put together," says...
...surprisingly, the House masters eventually took a more pragmatic view. If a local liquor merchant, upset with the Houses' flippant dismissal of the law, complained to authorities, or if a sodden teenager raising trouble mentioned he'd gotten the booze at Harvard, it would be the masters' heads rolling. Masters are not the legal guardians of college students, but the House system sets them up in loco parentis. The House masters could therefore not afford to let students run their own happy hours, no matter how discriminate in serving the students promised to be. The potential for a lawsuit...
...variety of Kama Sutra positions. Yes, there is plenty of sex in Pourquoi Pas!, and all persuasions, but it is a natural extension of the plot and not the sole motivation behind the film, as is the case in anything starring Laura Antonnelli. The title wrongly suggests a certain flippant, "what-the-hell-as-long-as-it's-kinky" mindlessness which does a great injustice to this excellent film...
...found it confusing," said one resident tutor, who asked not to be identified. "It was a curious statement abaout the themes of the '60s. He treated it in such a flippant manner, tending to disregard the importance of those events. I didn't know whether he was making a particular political statement, or simply a humorous after-dinner address...