Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stampeded in recent years by voracious freeloaders, the New York Film Critics decided to make their awards ceremony strictly a private affair. The bash at Sardi's was closed to reporters and all but a few pressagents and publicists. The critics did relent enough to let in the winners and their stand-ins, like John Gielgud, who collected the Best Actor's prize for Laurence Olivier (Sleuth). Liv Ullmann not only grabbed the prize as Best Actress (Cries and Whispers) but picked up three awards for her director Ingmar Bergman (Best Director, Screenplay and Picture awards for Cries...
...Loud family. subjects of a seven-month documentary analysis, take a vacation, separately. CH. 2. 9 p.m. Color. 60 min. Love Story. No, not that one. This 1944 English movie with striking plot similarities to a certain Harvard recruiting film has an ailing concert pianist in a doomed love affair with a blind RAF officer...
...TIME report on the Watergate affair draws upon the rankest form of unsubstantiated hearsay to attempt to connect Mr. Mitchell and me to the incident. That connection is totally false. No TIME reporter attempted to contact me or Mr. Mitchell. Responsible journalists invariably try to verify the accuracy of an allegation-certainly one this serious-before publication. Had I had the opportunity, I would have most emphatically denied the implication of the story. Mr. Mitchell has also emphatically denied its allegations...
...that it did not publish his prior public denials in the story. It is true that TIME'S reporter did not speak to Mr. Colson or Mr. Mitchell prior to publication; however, in the past, he tried and failed numerous times to interview Mr. Colson about the Watergate affair. It is also true that Mr. Hunt was not personally quoted and that other sources were presumably quoting Mr. Hunt, as we believe was indicated in the context of the story...
...show in Manhattan. Playwright Home's three central characters are titled racing stewards. Imagine their clubroom pal lor when they discover that a stakes race has been rigged by the wife of the senior board member (Wilfrid Hyde-White). When a priggish socialist peer threatens to expose the affair, this Britannic trio waives the rules and brings the bounder to heel...