Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...round is twirling again, and quite gayly. In the unlikely case that you haven't heard, the play is about sex: a prostitute sleeps with a soldier, who sleeps with a parlor maid, who sleeps with a young gentleman, who ...and, after ten characters, back to the prostitute. Each affair makes a seperate seduction scene, usually broken in the middle by a delicately significant blackout...
...police termed the entire affair a hoax, and allowed these of the girls that were awake to go back to sleep...
...celluloid epic patterns set by D. W. Griffith in 1915 have changed very little: you just take some romantic, legendary, historical period like Reconstruction in the South, add a zesty love affair or three between ideal "period" characters to raise the story above documentary level, and interpret history in some engrossing way. Nowadays you also spend five million dollars or so and tell people movies are better than ever, in hope that you will make back the five million...
Vice President Nguyen Ngoc Tho insisted: "This is an internal affair." Saigon's lively, neon-lighted Chinese city of Cholon was plunged into deep gloom. Grocers closed their doors, sat in front of their shops reading newspapers. Depressed by the slump in business, the queen of Cholon's call girls took an overdose of sleeping pills as the shortest route to the shades of her ancestors, was escorted to her grave in a red teak coffin by a weeping procession of old customers...
...loaded questions that occupy increasing numbers of psychologists and psychiatrists. Depth psychology now probably has more influence on the U.S. at large through business and advertising than through clinics or mental-health programs. Not so long ago, when an advertiser was using psychology, it was a hit-or-miss affair of hunches; today it has become a solidly entrenched and complex specialty known as MR (short for motivation research). In The Hidden Persuaders (David McKay; $4), Free Lance Writer Vance Packard analyzes the mass psychoanalysis carried...