Word: flirted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lovers, a young Hungarian artist played by Horst Bucholz and an orphaned Parisienne played by Roney Schneider, meet in a public garden. They have passed each other before, but this time he stops to flirt with her as she sits reading poetry. Beside her on the bench nest three beautiful fat oranges, symbolizing the simple and good beauty of their meeting. she tells him that she has a big family, that she is very rich, that her chauffeur awaits, but to encourage him in spite of herself, she kisses him before she runs away--"only because you are so lonely...
...Little Outbreak." Last year Banda's country was torn by bloody riots between Hindu Tamils and Buddhist Sinhalese, in which men were burned alive. Though his own vacillations and tendency to flirt with political and religious extremists were largely responsible for the riots, Banda airily dismissed them as "one of those little outbreaks." It was a far less serious little outbreak that finally brought him down. His assassin turned out to be a 43-year-old monk who practices the traditional Ayurvedic (native) medicine-a secret method of treatment with herbs and massage. According to Colombo police, the monk...
...townsfolk strolled its length, bought melons and cherries from the peasants, sipped thick Turkish coffee. The town elders sat smoking in the middle of the bridge, looked with contentment on the Bosnian mountains ringing their valley, gravely discussed public matters. The young men came to sing and joke, to flirt with passing girls or lean dreaming on the parapet. On such soft nights, a man on the bridge felt as if he were on a magic swing: "He swung over the earth and the waters and flew in the skies, yet was firmly and surely linked with the town...
...with the over-all focus. For as the horror of the situation itself fades into a war movie cliche--complete with goose-stepping, bombing and all the rest of it--as the beauty of Anne Frank's character dissolves into naughty cuteness, we are left with eight people who flirt, fight, and fret in a disappointingly usual way. The play managed, without ever seeming to strain, to suggest how sustained tension and continuous confinement would affect them, while the film injects these changes artificially...
Except for the usual contributions of two or three poets who flirt with the editors only when deadline nears, the issue reveals the vanity, the affectation, and finally, the vacancy in talent of those...