Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Venetian Affair, MacInnes...
...basis of her drunken tape-recorded confession that she had lied. Thus, as she was led from the half-empty courtroom with tears starting from her eyes, ended what Defense Counsel Hutchin son probably prematurely termed "the last chapter in this long saga that has been called the Keeler affair...
Absurdity & Despair. The bleak, mocking portrayal of 19th century Russian life that Shostakovich chose for his libretto survives from the original version. A gay and clever girl marries into a loveless, thankless life among crude and cruel merchants. A love affair blossoms with one of her husband's workmen, and, bewitched by the promise of a new life, she kills both husband and father-in-law. Just as she and her lover take happy possession of the Mtsensk manor house, the crimes are discovered; on her way to Siberia in a column of convicts, she is taunted...
...Affair of the Skin just misses being a first-class parody of the foreign art films that inspired it. Purporting to show "the realism of grownup, contemporary sex" in America-not in England or France or Italy-Producer-Writer-Director Ben Maddow (The Savage Eye) serves up a mannered little pastiche of urban infidelities that is pure counterfeit. Husband Kevin McCarthy can't stand shrewish Wife Lee Grant, so he takes up with Model Viveca Lindfors, who is the mistress of his best friend Herbert Berghof. Rounding out the quintet, for no discernible reason except to exploit interracial dalliance...
...during his lean years he paid for a divorce instead of taxes), and when for one year (on the royalties of his gamy novel, Memoirs of Hecate County) he had the income of a small businessman, he should not have been taxed as if his money were an annual affair...