Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Venetian Affair, Maclnnes...
Dali, who has dabbled in every style since impressionism, has now reached Pop art as well. One canvas faithfully reproduces the text of a Spanish newspaper reporting the Christine Keeler affair. There is more to it than just that swears Dali. If flies are permitted to swarm on it, he says, they will take such positions that their defecation will reveal the presently invisible heads of Socrates, Homer and Lorenzo de Medici in between the lines...
Political figures generally have low ratings. President Lyndon Johnson is in the lower minute range. Harold Macmillan's coefficient was 12 minutes, but it may have fallen since the Christine Keeler affair. (Miss Keeler's rating, incidentally, is two hours.) Surprisingly, de Gaulle has a remarkable coefficient of 7 hours, 30 minutes, but this is somewhat misleading. De Gaulle's thoughts are constantly on France, but he has come to identify France with his own personality. Thus, appropriately adjusted, de Gaulle's coefficient is actually one minute, 30 seconds. Similarly, the former American ambassador to India, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul...
When coach John Pont moved from Miami, Ohio, to New Haven this fall, Yale's sports publicity office burst into near-rapturous descriptions of the All-New John Pont Offensive System. The System seemed to be something of a hush-hush affair...
...certain sort of book, like a certain sort of party, is not expected to begin on time; if you make the mistake of arriving in the first chapter, you find the author still polishing ashtrays and setting out dishes of salted nuts. But Irish farce is not a sitdown affair; it is the falling-down kind, and must begin on time or a little earlier. It is Good Intentions missing his tram and improving the hour by having a few innocent drinks with his fine friends Sedition and Salvation, and ending up, all amaze, knee-walking in the dark...