Word: whim
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...whim, the trio goes to the sea. They rent a house by the beach and spend the summer there. They have a glorious time of it, with a few minor incidents. Catherine is extremely jealous when Jules and Jim don't pay any attention to her because they are so engaged in a game of dominoes. Jim is attracted to Catherine, but he respects Jules so much that he does not take advantage of the fact that Catherine is also attracted to him. As the summer ends, Jules proposes to Catherine, and she accepts...
...points imperiously at her wedding ring -- "No, I will not marry any of these boring girls" -- and so on up to Paul Taylor's Airs. As White Oak continues to tour (Washington; Cleveland, Ohio; Atlanta; and Minneapolis, Minnesota, are among the upcoming cities), Misha will vary the jokes on whim...
Dickens died before finishing The Mystery of Edwin Drood and left no notes indicating the resolution. The Rupert Holmes musical is based on the premise that the "Music Hall Royale" is performing Dickens' novel with a view towards finishing it based on the whim of the audience. The result is not so much a "play within a play" as it as an attempt at recreating the experience of going to a Victorian era music hall. Ingenues are offered to lonely theatre-goers, scenes are introduced by the Chairman of the Music Hall, the action of the "play" is stopped...
...gadgets ought to be employed. Decisions about the relation of sexual activity to marriage, about homosexual activity, soon perhaps even about pederasty, are all not merely left to the individual, but the very suggestion that such choices might be criticized--that there might be some ground other than individual whim for making them--is denounced as "bigotry" or "harmful prejudice." Is nothing shameful, nothing harmful, so long as "consent" is not violated? It is a sad commentary on the current state of sexual morality and of society in general that, all sense of shame having been extinguished or suppressed, only...
However, it was not always clear that Zimmerman was destined to be a water polo star. While most players start at an early age, Zimmerman started playing the game in high school on, essentially, a whim...