Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PEOPLE--including members of both parties--have praised President Ford's decision last week to recover the Mayaguez and its crew by force. The entire affair attests not to the swiftness of U.S. action or the diplomatic benefits accrued as "a by-product, a bonus," as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50 called them, but the loss of American and Cambodian lives...
...seductive voice. "And now I want to show you the real middle of the world." The scene cuts to her bedroom, where the two quickly doff their inhibitions and their clothes and slip under the sheets, quickly reaching the first of the many climaxes that shape their deepening affair...
...symbols. The political bosses' strategy to address only non-controversial, non-political issues and to sell Paul as a Mr. Clean figure: Adriana's difficulty in keeping her customers' hands off her backside; her mysterious departure from her working-class neighborhood in Italy--the very relations that lend this affair between a married middle-class engineer and a lower-class waitress more than merely psychological significance become only ponderous ornaments adorning a theme we've seen handled too many times in the past...
...Affair to Remember, 7:45 tonight with Make Way for Tomorrow at 9:55 p.m. Friday until Tuesday, Wuthering Heights at 7:40 p.m. and Jane Eyre...
Maybe Seeger's sort of appeal can still work. After all, you do hear a lot of people clapping and singing along on the album, albeit a bit slow to respond to Seeger's signals and a little self-consciously. But the whole affair brings to mind that heart-rending scene in Fitzgerald's Gatsby, when Nick ventures that perhaps he shouldn't get his hopes up, that it's been years since Daisy loved him. "Can't recapture the past?" Gatsby responds. "Why, of course...