Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monza, by Mario Mazzucchelli. Based on archives opened six years ago in Milan, this book retells a lurid story that shocked 17th century Italy. It takes 14 years of solitary penitence before Sister Virginia of Monza is finally forgiven for her passionate, protracted love affair with a reckless nobleman...
...film career as a sailor. A motion-picture company was making a movie of a novel by Yujiro's brother, who arranged for Yujiro to work as an extra because he could handle a sailboat. Within a year, he was starring in a beach-bum opera called Love Affair at Kamakura. He had been a law student but he abandoned that, began to drink, and was soon in the 800-fan-letters-a-day class. Instead of dried seaweed and rice, he preferred beer for breakfast-and whisky in the evening. With two other working lushes, he once killed...
...mentions at a cocktail party that he is thinking of buying a 1929 Lagonda (an automobile), Janet chirps: "He's just crazy about good wines." Under the tutelage of seasoned Divorcee Shelley Winters, Janet finally sees what Martha is up to, squares the triangle with a retaliatory affair...
...Ticklish Affair is unlikely to tickle anybody who is not addicted to an old Hollywood plot-boy meets girl's kiddies. Three lads want to find a husband for Mommy, a Navy widow (Shirley Jones). One day they flash a semaphoric SOS from their bedroom window toward the naval base across the bay, succeed in alerting a considerable portion of the U.S. Navy. When a suitably goodhearted, simple-minded commander (Gig Young) comes jeeping to the house, the boys look him over, decide he is just the man for Mommy. From then on, the story cruises so predictably that...
...Monza, by Mario Mazzucchelli. Based on archives opened six years ago in Milan, this book takes a fresh look at a lurid story that shocked 17th century Italy. It takes 14 years of solitary penitence before Sister Virginia of Monza is finally forgiven for her passionate, protracted love affair with a reckless nobleman...