In 1979 George Harrison purchased, almost on a whim, what Terry Jones would later call "the most expensive movie ticket of all time".
Then the new guy takes over: The man who bought the house had had no dream so who can say what dark malicious whim led him to take his axe and split the bole along its fused seam, then dig two holes.
Then, at what appears the whim of his royal sponsors and their City counterparts, he was abruptly shifted to a nakedly partisan post in customs that entailed his daily presence on the waterfront, constant record-keeping and regular involvement with some of the shrewdest and most despised moneymen of the land.
Not that you get to choose, according to your own whims, what words actually mean, but there is always much more to know about a word than what a dictionary can tell you.
Rather than be lonely, the gusty young mother-to-be shares her room (though not her bed) with a skinny painter who enjoys mothering her and about whose sexual whims ("What d'you do? Go on – what d'you do?") she is uproariously curious.
These pages are filled with amiable but ambitious eccentrics who follow their whims ("What gave him the confidence to make art out of petroleum jelly and tapioca and athletic equipment?" he asks about Matthew Barney) and soon earn riches on a scale that would impress their Wall Street patrons.
I do not know what laws, regulations, whims or prejudices govern the behavior of someone I have never seen before who is carrying a weapon.
You didn't have anybody who thought this guy committed murder except for one pathologist who decided that it was homicide on what seemed like a whim".
Grabbing a cab with minimal hassle and then gliding through the city on a whim is what you might call the Optimal Taxi Experience, the O.T.E.
When pressed, they would cite the freedom to go to nice restaurants, hang out with friends, buy clothes on a whim, do what they want.
