Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Antonioni, the discovery of the murder represents the intrusion of reality on the photographer's world. The blow-ups suddenly bring him face-to-face with potential involvement in the affairs of other people. He does not, actually, become involved: his nature rules out the possibility of calling the police, he cannot locate the girl, and his interest in the affair begins to diminish when he discovers that the girl has stolen the blow-ups--the only evidence of the crime. Still, for a moment, the detached photographer realizes his involvement sufficiently to consider the alternatives: calling the police...
Tomatoes/Potatoes. In her house the walls, telephones and pianos are always white, the butler is always comic, and her escort perennially in top hat and tails, ready for a twirl. Love is the only problem she knows, and that is a somewhat half-witted affair, its contretemps based on misunderstandings that a TV-trained three-year-old could settle in seconds. The battle of the sexes is either mock or bittersweet; one lyric says it all: "We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes/But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes." All this is sexy...
...weeks to introduce evidence. After that, and after counterarguments are entered by ABC and ITT, the commission will decide whether to reopen the case and reconsider its previous approval. Chances are strong that it will reaffirm the merger. They are equally strong that Justice will then take the whole affair to court...
...Conference, when it met, was a lifeless affair. The Council submitted a long report of unflinching orthodoxy, that missed entirely the import of the Howard speech. It reflected throughout what Rainwater has called "the services strategy," as against an income strategy in dealing with problems of poverty. Thus, the section on public welfare proposed, "There should be a sharp reduction of the number of clients served by each case worker." This is a common enough American approach to social problems, but there is perhaps a special significance in this particular area: a quite disproportionate number of middle-class Negroes...
Start of the Affair. Because of Johnson's admonition, together with the fact that he was not licensed to practice law in Washington, Baker said, he arranged to have over $30,000 in fees from his clients made out in checks payable to a Washington lawyer friend instead of to himself. Thus Bobby denied the Government's contention that the setup was meant to evade taxes on influence-peddling deals...