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...join earlier and keep them interested." One way is through advertising. In one television spot, a young woman abandons a night of sex for a game of bingo (doubtful). In another, four glamorous ladies with nicknames like Four Leaf (the lucky one) and the Virgin (the first-timer) flirt with good-looking men over their "daubers," the fat felt-tipped pens used to mark numbers (improbable). The idea is that bingo offers all the excitement of a nightclub, but without the flashing lights or the pounding soundtrack. When this reporter embedded in a bingo hall, however, I found that reality...
...number The Carioca, audiences knew that the gangly guy and the pert ingenue were an ideal match. Here was emotion expressed in motion, the finest blending of passion and technique. RKO would go on to pair Fred and Ginger in eight romances that would define how two bodies can flirt and fuse in dance...
Politicians may flirt with reviving the draft, but they are too late; it's already happened. Some citizens willingly enlisted, some were conscripted, some gathered on Saturday to conscientiously object--but when Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge put the country on heightened alert, he began our basic training. Watch for men with nicks on their faces; they may be freshly shaved jihadists. Report suspicious bags. The soda bottle in the subway could be cyanide. France says it wants more weapons inspectors? We now have millions of them...
Once the whole company is onstage, the music becomes percussive and rock-tinged, the lights turn a lurid yellow, and the cast members flirt tauntingly in dance sequences that are alternately erotic and cruel. Hungered by their exertions, they pause to munch apples, evoking not only a symbol of temptation but also the Edenic state at the center of the story...
...succession of mute partners with a phobia for physical contact, only a gray-haired fiftysomething called Katrina manages to loosen my collar a little. Katrina's friskiness doesn't make up for the fact that I have not received a single calling card. So I consult in-house flirting guru Peta Heskell. "Some men relentlessly assault themselves with negative feelings," she tells me. "The key is getting rid of the voices in your head." Final score: zero cards, two e-mail addresses - and those voices in my head ringing even louder. For this speed dater, what's billed...