Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JACQUES VILLON-Thaw, 50 East 78th. Death put an end last year to the more than 60 years in art that Villon called "a long love affair." It was a happy one that mellowed and matured with the man, and it is tellingly revealed by these 15 oil paintings. The earliest is a 1909 Portrait of the Artist; he is young, bearded, not yet taken with cubism. The latest is The Environs of Rouen, painted in 1960, luminous proof of how apt was his self-summation as a "cubist impressionist." Through April...
...LOVER by Harold Pinter, and PLAY by Samuel Beckett. Pinter's couple indulge in the aphrodisiac of a make-believe affair, while Beckett's trio reveal with solemn hu mor the banality of adultery...
Disaster & Victory. She made roughly a dozen more movies in the years after the affair ended, including The Hasty Heart and The Breaking Point, before going back to Broadway in 1952 to do a revival of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour. She met Dahl at Lillian Hellman's apartment; they were married in 1953. Their marriage has succeeded to a degree that few marriages do, and it has been touched as well with tragedy that few have to endure. On a trip to New York in 1960 to do a small part in Breakfast...
...town last November. But the town was Jackson, Miss., where concerts are still segregated, and tickets are sold by subscription only-to the right people. Instead of getting into the hall, the boys landed in jail because they insisted they had a right to hear the performance. The affair was hardly noticed at the time, but by last week it had become the inspiration for a cause celebre: one after another, the nation's leading concert artists were joining a boycott of the segregated South...
...sets out to solve it himself. He talks to people who remember the sister, to the police inspector who handled the case, to one of the former suspects. The investigation occupies all of his weekends and gradually all of his evenings as well. His neglected wife drifts into an affair with a handsome ski instructor. But to Castiletz it soon seems as if the events on the night of the murder are the only reality; that "everything else during the long subsequent years had in fact been piled-up rubble concealing his true life." When he finds out at last...