Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...globed lamps of the Edwardian decor, sweating photographers dashed about popping dozens of flashbulbs at her, occasionally overturning chairs and breaking wine glasses. The guests-from Boston grandes dames to college boys-gaped openly at Jackie, but she seemed unperturbed. Dinner was surprisingly good for such an affair: lobster, veal, braised endive and soufflé glacé. Jackie sat serenely through the speeches, then waltzed to the Blue Danube, The Merry Widow and Tales from the Vienna Woods, played by the Boston Pops Orchestra. Her first card dance was with Francis W. Hatch, chairman of the symphony trustees. She also...
...state were invited to last week's Arab League Meeting in Casablanca, but only twelve showed up. The absentee was Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, who sent his regrets in the form of a 10,000-word memo randum intended to torpedo, if not the whole affair, at least its main personality, Egypt's Abdel Gamal Nasser...
Tragedy of Christiane. Somebody was sure to get hurt by such a monomania, and somebody did. On his return from Italy, Goethe took up with a factory girl named Christiane Vulpius, a charming young thing of 23 who, as he once remarked, "made the mattress shake." To Goethe, the affair was a convenience; to Christiane, it was a tragedy. The court of Weimar called her "Goethe's pig," and he did not allow her to share his table when company was present. As the years passed, Christiane took to drink and ran to fat. After 20 years...
...first to feel the pinch since it is wholly dependent on U.S. spare parts and, unlike India, has no real industrial base for home production of arms. Eventually, the U.S. arms cutoff?in which Britain joined?could ground both sides' jet planes and halt their tanks, reducing the whole affair to an infantry war?but not before weeks have passed...
...amiable Roman ragazzo: Forrest was a young American businessman who had recently separated from his wife, stayed on in Rome to forget. The story of their homosexual relationship forms the basis-but only the basis-for this perceptive, unsensational novel. For Marcello, son of a domineering manufacturer, the affair begins casually as one among many he has already enjoyed. He is unemotionally pleased by the physical pleasure and equally delighted to pick up some extra cash to spend on his girl. But for Forrest the affair is unique: what begins as a distraction becomes an obsession-both with Marcello...