Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loggins meets and falls in love with Monique, a raven-haired American beauty who has been brought up in France. With knowing French jokes and urbane, intellectual patter, Britt Harris parley-voodoos her under his spell and out of Sam's arms, and even proposes marriage. The whole affair takes a bizarre turn when Monique tells him that her father was a Negro. Britt rejects her in a drunken fury, Monique commits suicide, heartbroken Sam resolves to kill Britt. The last quarter of the novel has the flavor of a Hitchcock thriller as the two men, as cagily...
Things become even more difficult when the classic Romeo-and-Juliet aspect of feuds crops up in the love affair of Honoré's daughter and Maloret's son. The complications, always hilarious and elaborated with much Ayméan gusto, come thick and fast. But Honoré, the soul of goodness and absolutely free of guile, cannot live down the need for revenge. In the last Rabelaisian scene he stuffs...
...Telegram said it was a "vicious" tax that "should cause concern in every editor's office." The Liberal Victoria Times called it "a discriminatory and authoritarian measure," the Vancouver News-Herald saw it as "a stride toward censorship," and the London Free Press, taking note of a similar affair on the other side of the border (see below), pointed out that "the same government which protested to the U.S. against discriminatory action against a Canadian brewery in Maryland is now discriminating against reading material from abroad...
...their eyes, their illicit love affair is full of many-splendored things, but the dialogue is not one of them. Sample...
...heart sort of grin that richly expresses the sham in the shamrock, Actress Charisse has plenty to be aloof from. He grabs her hand in a casino, holds it for good luck -and wins three times in a row. This, of course, is the start of a love affair as well as a bank account. However, the grimly spontaneous kissing sometimes makes way for some fairly fresh kidding (when the lovers hold hands, a thousand hens lay all at once, and oil explodes from a dry well) and for a few high-class variety numbers. Lena Home and Cara Williams...