Word: flukes
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...meeting of Dabing and Ling Ling is a one-in-a-billion fluke, for they were childhood friends, bound by movie rapture. Most of the film flashes back to the time of the Cultural Revolution, when the two children had to make do with imagining they could watch films through the boy's "magic" binoculars. This fable of the passions and recriminations of youth is set in a dreamscape that mixes memory with wish fulfillment. It's China's Cinema Paradiso, but a much more honest, less cloying film...
...think it’s a fluke,” one Athens Street resident said, adding that knowing the suspect is still at large was unsettling. “It’s very disconcerting to have him wandering around here...
...quickly promoted to head the deli department. Soon she was managing 60 workers and flying around the country to train hundreds more. When she learned that a man she had trained was earning $3,500 more than she was, "they told me it was a fluke." But as other male colleagues leapfrogged past, her salary never rose above $60,000 and she never landed the promised job of store manager. When she complained, "they told me where to go," says Adams, 57. She quit...
...Here’s an example: The middle-aged assistant in the business class lounge at the Cairo airport (I arrived there through a travel agent fluke, a story for another day) showed me the various lounge rooms with a mischievous smirk: “This is the English lounge: it’s cold and dark, like the English! This is the American lounge: it’s big and bright, like Americans! This is the French lounge: there is no service here!” Though it’s illegal—you will find no books...
That didn’t ensure there weren’t a few hiccups along the way. The Crimson coasted past its first three opponents, including traditional Ivy power Brown, quieting doubters who may have thought last season’s second-place run was a fluke...