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...course, the bachelor unexpectedly shows up during the blackout, and one of the flit-and-run sight gags of the evening is Crawford's desperately adroit and maladroit effort to sneak the antiques back to the rightful owner's flat. By the time that Crawford's mistress (Geraldine Page) makes her unseen appearance, it is clear that British Playwright Shaffer has skimmed the most risibility from invisibility since the old Topper films...
...Modern. "It's high fashion," say Boston's dedicated following of fashion who flit from shop to shop on Washington Street. "It's Nowness. Newness. It's anything new and different." We send men towards the moon, elect movie stars, build neon Babylons, make music with electricity and look at the planet through telescopic, microscopic drugs--so why not have clothes to match...
...mysterious form of currency to many, Eurodollars flit about the Continent by the billions, escaping a precise definition by economists and an exact count by statisticians. Most simply a Eurodollar, or E$, is an American dollar that has been deposited in a European bank or the European branch of an American bank...
...Hué, all during the Diem years, Tri Quang was building up a Buddhist movement modeled after the Communist organizations that he had seen Ho employ against the French. To combat Diem's police, he organized special teams of young monks with flit guns filled with vinegar and red pepper. He had spies tucked neatly inside every fold of the Diem administration. He penetrated the regime's elite Cong Hoa youth, often got possession of top secret documents within 24 hours after they had been issued. One such paper was by Diem's brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu: Communiqu?...
...sector, the smell of rotting flesh and burning rubble still sickened the air. Heavily armed bands of youths roamed the area, yelling "Viva la constitutión! Viva Bosch!" "Let the Yankees come and get us," snarled one submachine gun-toting rebel. All through the week snipers continued to flit from house to house, pecking away at U.S. troops hemming them in. One night a rebel motorboat in the Ozama River made life difficult for the 82nd Airborne. "Eventually," explained a laconic paratroop captain, "we got tired of that, so we sank it." In other action, the paratroopers blasted another...