Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blatter, but grandiloquent. Munger proclaims them with full voice, but he is physically too small for the part. There is something wonderfully absurd about his talk of war and glory. If he is meant to be funny, the audience should be given some hint of it before the whole affair becomes so ridiculous that laughter is the only...
...SPORT AND A PASTIME, by James Salter. While his characters fall in love, the author has a love affair of his own with rural France. A fine and beautifully written novel...
...Msgr. Escrivá, he insists that Opus Dei "never becomes involved in any temporal affair." It is thus not surprising that he attributes the obvious success and power of the organization and its members to divine direction. Opus Dei was founded, he says, "without any human means. It was born small, but it grew little by little, like a living organism, as everything develops in history." The organism he rules is nonetheless an extraordinary one. A measure of its power is that no bishop, archbishop or cardinal-let alone a mere politician-has any power over it. Msgr. Escriv...
...called the Cannes Film Festival, but as last week's events emphasized, the rightful name should be the Cannes Flesh Festival. The equalizer in many of the 24 pictures from 18 nations was nudity. In Yugoslavia's An Affair of the Heart, the camera zeroed in on a nude sex kitten playing with her black cat in bed. Denmark's The Red Mantle set some kind of longevity record for leering as it dwelled for ten minutes on a couple cavorting in and out of the sack...
Before another Lam is led to slaughter, it might be wise for Bob Hope to try another production firm. This-the 52nd film he has starred in-was churned out by Hope Enterprises, a family affair. For comedians, it's sometimes better to do business with strangers...