Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long time ago, for politicians and journalists alike. Reporter-Researchers Eileen Chiu and Anne Hopkins have been busy with the rush of political events since early spring. For Washington Correspondent Dean Fischer, who has switched back and forth over G.O.P. turf this year, the campaign has been a mixed affair. "Can a refugee from the Reagan campaign find a haven in the White House?" he asks. That may not be too difficult, since Fischer covered the President for two years, including the early primaries. Says he: "It's like coming home again...
...cousins by marriage, Marthe (attractively played by Marie-Christine Barrault) and Ludovic (Victor Lanoux), strike up a love affair that is, at first, resolutely platonic. The family thinks the couple is carrying on: fine, let them think whatever they want. After a while, however, Marthe and Ludovic agree that they are bearing the burden of suspicion without reaping any of the benefits. So they have at it with the sort of manufactured high spirits that could be bottled and labeled "Whimsical Abandon." They check into a hotel for a quick afternoon rendezvous, lose track of time and spend the rest...
...most lavish affair was thrown by Candy Tycoon Charles H. Price II and his wife Carol, whose own fortune is based on holdings in Pepperidge Farm, Campbell Soup and Swanson. The Prices opened up their richly furnished two-story penthouse "The Walnuts," in the Country Club Plaza section of Kansas City, to 210 guests, including many of the town's leading citizens. Hallmark Card Owners Joyce Hall and his son Donald were there, as were civic-minded Banker R. Crosby Kemper Jr., for whose father the convention arena is named, and Henry Block, head of H & R Block...
...pretty feminist who becomes a college president at 29-with her husband working for her as an administrator. No book or script yet, but if you check this month's Esquire, it's all right there in Nora Ephron's piece called "The Bennington Affair," a wicked cross between Updike's Couples and McCarthy's The Groves of Academe...
...summa is icumen in," but he is unimpressed with her scholarship, and he is furious at her for getting an affirmative action resolution to hire women passed. They confer often, he giving her a tutorial on the politics of the place; then their intellectual flirtation turns into an affair. They teach a course together. When the students read Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Parker and Welter wear twin T shirts, hers labeled ZENOBIA (the romantic feminist who kills herself), and his COVERDALE (the narrator). Nothing sneaky about their relationship. Hell, the whole school knows about it. All they have...