Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people reborn--but only in a tenuous way, Ingmar Bergman seems to say in his movie made for Swedish TV. At the end of the movie, years after their divorce, Bergman's characters Marianne and Johan have each remarried and smoothed out their lives enough to have a new affair with each other. Marianne, originally a paradox-woman whose ability as a divorce lawyer and counselor can't hide her personal inability to see the inconsistencies in herself and her marriage, has emerged from the trauma that surrounded her life from the time Johan left her. She questions more...
...Senators were even more troubled by the fact that Rockefeller had sharply altered his account of the affair. When first questioned by reporters, he denied that he had initiated the book and said that Laurance had financed it. But in his testimony last week, he took full responsibility himself; the book was such a trivial item in the campaign, he said, that he had simply forgotten that he had authorized it. "My statement was totally unfair to my brother, who is one of the nicest people in the world...
...that, Giscard has been acutely embarrassed recently by what has become known as the "Stehlin affair." A retired commanding general of the French air force (1960-63) and vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, Paul Stehlin wrote a memorandum to Giscard suggesting that France's Mirage F1/M53 fighter was inferior to two new U.S. jets, General Dynamics' YF-16 and Northrop's YF-17. Most impartial aviation experts agree, but Stehlin made the point during a feverish competition over whether the Mirage or one of the U.S. planes will become the standard fighter for NATO...
...consequence himself before he was 40. He completed Jenufa in 1903 when he was 49. It received its "overnight" success a dozen years later. He wrote several other operas, including From the House of the Dead, which is almost a speculation on Dostoyevsky's novel, and The Makropoulos Affair, a fantastic showpiece for orchestra...
Goya began the Caprichos in 1797, at the end of a bitter love affair with the libidinous Duchess of Alba. In a good position, therefore, to cast a critical eye on Spanish aristocratic society, he conceived a series of "suenos," or dreams. For his frontispiece, he made a print which he called "El Sueno de la Razon Produce Monstruous"--the Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. A man lies crumpled on his desk, asleep, and devoid of reason: he is attacked by a horde of owls--the Spanish symbol for dirt and stupidity--black bats and a glaring...