The recent acrimonious flap over the lack of minority members . . . has continued to reverberate through the private club world.

Consider the recent flap over yet more rumored infidelities on the part of President Clinton when he was in Arkansas.

In a linguistic development only remotely related to the nefarious impersonation that is pretexting, we have the recent flap about adopting a pseudonym to conceal one's own identity.

Cashman's view of Tellem echoed Steinbrenner's view of Tellem before this recent flap.

Consider the recent flap involving the Tropicana, the poolside bar at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles.

This was the second recent flap over the film.

The recent flap involving Princess Ruth had just given him the handle to tie it on.

"Obviously, we're aware of the recent flap," Mr. Donaldson, who was chairman of the New York exchange in the early 1990's, told reporters in a conference call yesterday afternoon.

The most recent flap occurred last month when five prominent investment banks pulled out of a group, or syndicate, underwriting about $2.4 billion worth of bonds for the Farmers Home Administration.

(There was a recent flap about people using speed dialers to stack the votes, but Fox insists that that has not influenced the results.)