Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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 great sensitivity of texture, color and light...
What had happened? Knowledgeable students of the Mindszenty affair were torn between two possible theories. One was that the cardinal had agreed to a Hungary-Vatican deal by which he would have been allowed to leave the country in peace, but then backed down at the last minute when the Communists refused to drop a charge of treason against him. Another was that Mindszenty was so angered by Washington's decision to restore full diplomatic relations with Hungary that he planned to walk out of the mission simply to embarrass incoming U.S. Ambassador Martin Hillenbrand-even at the risk...
...episodic nature of Reflections in a Golden Eye apparently results from its attempt to include the substance of the Carson McCullers novel on which it is based. The movie skips from point to point, initially dwelling on the female lead's (Elizabeth Taylor) affair with her husband's immediate superior at a Georgia army base. It swoops in on an enlisted man's strange infatuation with Miss Taylor, swipes briefly at the mental illness of the superior officer's wife, and finally lands on the theme it ends with, the even stranger, growing infatuation of Miss Taylor's husband (Marlon...
Though both camps kept mum on the details, few expected the latest ripples to end the six-week-old strike overnight. The blackout did seem to improve the temper of the affair, which has tended to be insulting. U.A.W. bargainers have been complaining that Ford Negotiator Sidney F. McKenna works "like a computer," like to call him the "McKennacal Man." The union's veteran negotiator, Gene Prato, ended one recent session by announcing, in four-letter terms, that he'd had more than enough of McKenna...
...about his dishonesty--"for poets are eigned to lie, and I / For you a liar am a thousand times." Perhaps his most significant lie is the most implicit: he assumes the continued intensity of his love for Lise, judges his victory by the extent of her involvement in the affair. He succeeds, of course, in enticing her fully into skulking love: but then he discovers he must have her complete fidelity, which she apparently grants. Perhaps we should see it coming, we know him well enough to know, or guess, what comes next; but his rhetoric caught...