Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indivduals as for epochs the process of aging is normally a quiet and gradual affair, but the realization of youth having passed comes often as not with a suddenness, even a shock. Most of us, I suspect, mark that moment well and often thereafter in idle passages find ourselves touching the wound it left. My moment, and that of many like me, came with the death of Kennedy, and along with the others, I knew it. About the third day of that long, terrible time Mary McGrory said to me, "We'll never laugh again." And I answered, "Heavens, Mary...
ELVIRA MADIGAN. This elegiac pastorale, directed by Sweden's Bo Widerberg, based on the true story of a cavalry officer's hopeless love affair with a circus tightrope walker, is spare and elegant, with outstanding sensitivity of texture, color and light...
...house, as I do in yours," L.B.J. beamed at his friend. This accentuated mood of friendship prevailed, although in a speech before Congress Díaz Ordaz sternly warned against protectionist trade tendencies in the U.S. But the visit's highlight was clearly the celebration of the Chamizal affair's settlement...
Pernicious Foreigner. Buckley's conservatism is very much a family affair. His father, William Frank Buckley Sr., who made millions in oil in Mexico and later in Venezuela, was understandably devoted to unfettered free enterprise. His mother, Aloise, was from a deep-rooted family of New Orleans, where she acquired a distinct distaste for importunate Yankees and their progressive ideas. The family conservatism was, if anything, strengthened when the elder Buckley was thrown out of Mexico as a "pernicious foreigner" in 1921 and his holdings expropriated. "It gave him," says his daughter Priscilla, "a lifelong distrust of revolutionary...
...sure, the film is a re-creation of the triangled plot involving King Arthur (Richard Harris), Queen Guenevere (Vanessa Redgrave) and Lancelot (Franco Nero), the interloper-knight who gives his rivals at the Round Table their joust desserts, thereby arousing the lady's passions. The King ignores their affair until the appearance of his bastard son Mordred (David Hemmings), who sunders the kingdom with slander and rumor. A war between Arthur and Lancelot begins, Guenevere flees to a nunnery, and Camelot dissolves into legend...