Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longhairs, nuts out there, filling up O'Brien's beloved party seats, ready to tear his whole political life to shreds. He puffed on his Kents and chortled, sitting in his trailer just outside the hall, outwardly calm but inside taut. He would have the whole monstrous affair to oversee...
...investigation into the bugging of Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington's Watergate office complex is moving cautiously ahead. A federal grand jury this week is scheduled to quiz officials of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President on what they know about the affair. Admits one: "The FBI is all over this place." Last week a lawyer who had represented the five men arrested on June 17 in the Watergate was charged by a federal judge with contempt of court for refusing to answer questions from the grand jury...
Arthur Godfrey Road cuts a path into Miami Beach past the Moulin Rouge's neon invitation to "Have Your Next Affair Here," past the ubiquitous Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, past the Eden Roc Hotel with its plaster version of the Winged Victory of Samothrace crated for protection against radicals and art vandals. After the turn up Collins Avenue, the road ends at the Doral, McGovern Headquarters and purveyors of bathrooms so mirrored as to enable Frank Mankiewicz to view the performance of all his major biological functions simultaneously from four different angles...
...years Kiyoaki has been secretly in love with the Ayakuras' beautiful daughter Satoko, but he can admit to his passion only after she has become betrothed to a royal prince. The inevitable desperate, destructive affair ensues. By the end of the book, Satoko has fled to a nunnery and Kiyoaki has died of-God help us all-consumption...
...Fascist Italy, Dominique played the sheltered, unworldly daughter. In The Conformist, another brilliant film about the same era, she was the lesbian wife of an anti-Fascist exile. In her newest movie, John Frankenheimefs Impossible Object, currently being shot in France, she plays a woman obsessed by an adulterous affair with a novelist, played by Alan Bates...