Word: whim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Childie (Eileen Atkins) is a long, pale taffy pull of a girl with the cringing whine of an eternal sycophant and the wily compliance of a slave. At the arbitrary whim of Sister George, Childie must kneel and kiss the hem of her master's skirt, drink her dirty bath water or chew and swallow one of her soggy cigar butts. Childie's fraud is that while she plays the lesbian, she lusts after men and cheats on Sister George...
...galling years, said Ball, France has managed to "transform the Common Market into a mere commercial arrangement," shut Britain out of Europe by whim, deny Germany participation in nuclear control "so as to preserve its own exclusive position as the sole nation with nuclear weapons on the Western European continent," and force the restructuring of NATO "in order to achieve freedom of political maneuver that could permit it to deal, to its own advantage, with what it has described with a curious impartiality as 'the two great hegemonies...
...need for art to outpace popular appreciation. Pop itself, restricted to the sophisticated scavenger's delight, or the satirist's mocking image, has grown familiar and static. Op and kinetic art, like that of Le Fare's, are less human because they are less dependent on whim and whimsy. In the ephemeral flow of contemporary styles, this art chitters and clatters on ahead like a mechanical rabbit with transistorized circuits...
...Nikita had bounced around like a regular fellah, shaking hands and cracking jokes, and returned to Moscow to report to his colleagues that he had made a new aid commitment to Nasser without consulting them. It was one of the items that filled the dossier on rule by personal whim and caprice with which they denounced and demoted him. The new leadership refused to honor Nikita's check to Nasser...
...there is anything in the world of high fashion more vulnerable to whim than clothes, it is the models who wear them. They seem to emerge from nowhere, sparkle brilliantly, then plunge into Stygian darkness,* the victims of too much deja vu. Now rising into ascendancy is a new heavenly body who, because of her striking singularity, promises to remain on high for many a season...