Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kinds of sensations that were the bread and butter of daily newspapers. Even now, while there are thousands of scandalous skeletons for the dailies to pick out of political closets, the bang-bang cops-and-robbers stuff is still given screaming banner-headline play. The Patricia Hearst affair and the "siege" of Washington's U.S. District Courthouse--where two convicts took eight people hostage in an escape attempt last Thursday--are just the sort of thing publishers like to have around for their front pages...
...meantime, the trial of John Ehrlichman, Nixon's former top aide for domestic affairs, and three erstwhile White House "plumbers" was continuing in Washington. Ehrlichman is charged with one count of conspiracy and four counts of perjury: authorizing the plumbers' burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist hi September 1971 and then lying about his involvement hi the affair to the FBI and to a Watergate grand jury. Ehrlichman maintains that he knew nothing about the break-in until after it had occurred...
...desperately unhappy spouses find each other and enter into an affair which changes their once passionless existences into lives of all-consuming passion. The fervor of the love-making during their secret trysts is adolescent, almost humorous, in quality. Their desire for each other and the escape which their romance represents become uncontrollable. Like most people in their position they complain about having to sneak around, and console each other in their matrimonial misery. Unlike most people, though, they decide to release themselves from their bondage. Their means are incredibly simple: Piccoli poisons his infirmed wife and conspires with...
...most disquieting shortcoming is in the way the movie deals with the relationships between people. In a film that is so richly textured, there is a surprising lack of feeling to personal interactions. For instance, it is never really clear what stuff the passion of the Audran-Piccoli affair is made of. How much romantic love there is, how much of the relationship is just an attempt to give life to a thrwarted sexuality, is just never defined satisfactorily. Perhaps Chabrol did not think such definitions important. Perhaps all we have to know is that the lovers shared a common...
...represent nothing less than an attempt to subvert the U.S. electoral system and then to hide the extent of that subversion. The argument, still widely heard, that all this was no more than dirty-politics-as-usual simply cannot be sustained by any halfway dispassionate student of the Watergate affair. Many of the offenders were public officials, men responsible for upholding the law in a law-and-order Administration. What the press did during the initial phase of Watergate, in addition to giving snapshots of truth to its audience, was serve in effect as a surrogate public agency, filling...