Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...motives that somehow seem less than pure, ABC is devoting six costly hours of prime time to the debate of an absurdly narrow historical question: Did General Dwight D. Eisenhower have a wartime affair with his British aide Kay Summersby, or didn't he? According to Summersby's posthumous memoir, she and Ike stole a few kisses but struck out in two attempts at lovemaking. According to the general's heirs, Ike never dreamed of cheating on Mamie. Poor ABC does not know what to think. The mini-series Ike raises the question of its hero...
Still, all this has a bit more energy than the affair between Farrow and Ka'ne, who after endless delays are mostly directed to nibble each other's necks and take decorously clothed swims and beach walks to demonstrate their affection. Swedish Film Maker Jan Troell, who has made terse, beautiful movies (The Emigrants, The New Land), here seems merely distant and befuddled, as does his usually superb cameraman, Sven Nykvist. The poorly shot concluding hurricane is supposed to be a sort of heavenly analogy to human passions we have been witnessing at play. In the circumstances...
...master had not been abandoned by the God of Israel." However Easter is interpreted, says Lapide, "one thing is certain: since all the witnesses of the resurrected Jesus were sons and daughters of Israel, since, moreover, he appeared only in the land of Israel, his Resurrection was a Jewish affair which must therefore be judged by Jewish standards if we are to gauge its authenticity...
...until the 11th inning of Saturday's doubleheader opener here, it was anything but the annual chuckle-and-rout affair versus the Hanoverians. Fortunately, it turned out only to be a heart-stopping scare for Harvard, as the batsmen came up with a critical sweep over the Big Green...
...instinct for incongruous humor to his new skill as a director. Several times in Manhattan he accomplishes this, points to promising possibilities in his use of language and the camera, and creates memorable images. Allen and Keaton wandering across the lunar surface in the planetarium, discussing their affair, hold our attention, but not the same couple silhouetted before an empty screen a la Bergman...