Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...struggled to get their work published. It was at this time that Neruda wrote and was able to publish Twenty Poems of Love and an Ode on Desperation, a melancholy collection filled with torment and passion. Neruda would later refer to the poems as the expression of his love affair with Santiago...
...dinner. These well-dressed "gentlemen" also flashed cards with insulting pictures and comments at the women who did not meet with their approval. Those who did win the "seal of approval" were greeted with flashes of "Puss in Boots," "orgasm," and other equally flattering endearments. The whole affair was very offensive to almost everyone; it was certainly very embarassing to the women coming into the dining room...
Iraqi Passport. That was certainly not the only anomaly in the affair. Even the circumstances of Abu Daoud's arrest in Paris were strange. He had come to the French capital as a member of a high-ranking Palestinian delegation to attend the funeral of Mahmoud Saleh, a former P.L.O. representative who had been gunned down a few days earlier on a Paris street. Traveling on an Iraqi passport issued in the name of Youssef Hanna Raji, Abu Daoud made no effort to disguise his easily recognizable features. He breezed through immigration and checked into...
...tipped off the French in Beirut that Abu Daoud was on his way to Paris, intelligence sources in Tel Aviv denied that they had had anything to do with it. One top-level official said: "We never wanted Abu Daoud and never tried to assassinate him. The whole affair is typical of internal French intelligence and has nothing to do with Israel, West Germany, or even with antiterror operations...
Selzer, a faculty member at the Yale University Medical School, can be entertaining, even whimsical, when he discusses baldness or Homo sapiens' his toric love affair with alcohol. But there is no drollery in his discussions of life's end. Like a man describing an old colleague, Selzer watches death at work. "You do not die all at once," observes the surgeon. "Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus . . . There are outposts where clusters of cells yet shine, besieged, little lights blinking...