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And his advocacy of the flat tax isn't just some Gingrichian intellectual dalliance, a Gephardtian populist pose, or even a Forbesian attempt to pocket a few million more bucks a year.
The collective implication is that Bauer's denials must have been couched to protect some unspecified kind of dalliance.
The most striking thing to me about McCain of late is his continuing dalliance with American Prospect- type liberalism.
Flirt (Gk. phlért ) is no longer a person who indulges in harmless dalliance but a lover, male or female or the love affair itself (more often than not, illicit); hula hoop means leotards; nylon is the transparent kind of plastic; shocking, used as a plural noun (Gk. sókin ), means off-color or risqué stories; and Texas , as in the sentence, It has become texas, means out of control, maniacally chaotic and violent (though this may be an idiosyncratic use by a small group of people).
In this context, it's not clear whether the writer or the subject appreciates the irony of the profile's key scene--Spielberg fatuously defending the behavior of his close personal friend Bill Clinton ("Morality is defined not just by a sexual dalliance") as he puffs contentedly on a cigar.