Word: larking
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Keeping a Carter down on the peanut farm these days is not easy. The President-elect's younger brother Billy, 39, figured it would be a lark to go up, up and away in a hot-air balloon. "I ain't worried about getting up," he said. "It's coming down." A contingent of reporters big enough for a moon shot watched Billy soar aloft, narrowly missing a utility pole, and sail over the pine trees of Americus, Ga., with the pilot and a friend. Billy blithely ignored federal recommendations that ballooners use hard hats. Instead...
HAYDN: QUARTETS, OP. 64, NO. 5 ("LARK") AND OP. 76, NO. 2 ("QUINTEN") (Cleveland Quartet; RCA). Two of the most subtle and spirited string quartets-crisply performed-from the pen of the man who virtually invented the form...
...flashbacks end and the dawn breaks on the caper that began the film, we see the dark rings under Belmondo's eyes and face the ugly mess of burglary for the first time in broad daylight. The whole business is not such a lark after all; Belmondo doesn't feel very sexy. Not Bujold, we now understand, not Belmondo's forged inheritance, not even a socio-economic destiny can satisfy this man's soul. Only his crowbar. The overall conception may strike us as weak, but we can now account for Malle's depressed editing. So if you feel that...
...instead of a discreetly valorous realist. There were good explanations (ignored by Shakespeare) for each of his acts of apparent cowardice. Says Falstaff. Naturally a fighter of his experience and ferocity could have vanquished the disguised Prince Hal, when Hal stole his loot from him after the highway robbery lark (Henry IV, Part I) at Gadshill. But that would have destroyed the confidence of the next King of England, so Falstaff let Hal win. And as for stabbing dead Hotspur and claiming to have killed him in battle, well, Hotspur might not really have been dead. Why take chances...
...Overton said he received in financial benefits for what started out as "a lark, a means of excitement and adventure," the career of the Harvard undergraduate may be drawing to a sudden and not too profitable close...