Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film, the vision is more focused, less intimidating and also less impressive. For example, the film has traded in the subplot of the German landlady for a far less interesting romance between a Jewish girl, daughter of a Berlin department store owner, and her would-be suitor. The affair is as boring as it is trite, and, if it weren't for the audience's guilt-ridden apprehensions. I don't think they'd give it a second look. Screenwriter Jay Allen shamelessly uses the threat of the concentration camp--there is an occasional shock cut to street violence...
York's love affair with the theater grew during his years at Oxford. "I read English at Oxford -- Tolkien's son was my tutor, actually. But you have to understand the English tutorial system at the universities to realize that I didn't spend much time in the classroom. I spent absolutely all my time acting." He belonged to the Oxford University Drama Society, the university's theater company that produces Shakespearean and classical drama. But he didn't confine himself to tradition, and joined the Experimental Theatre Company at Oxford as well. "Theater was my hole life at Oxford...
...television as Young Jolyon in the BBC's popular adaptation of "The Forsyte Saga." During the summer of '67 York worked with Zeffirelli in Rome as Tybalt in "Romeo and Juliet." Then he returned to twentieth century England for a persona as a young policeman in "The Strange Affair." Alexandria beckoned in "Justine" with Anouk Aimee, but "of all the films I've made. I like that one the least...
...presidential assistant concluded a discussion of the ITT affair (see story on page 86) by telling a junior staff member: "You know, the President doesn't like unnecessary memos like that [Lobbyist Dita Beard's] anyway." He then produced a presidential directive cautioning against treating mere memo writing as a sign of productivity. The present orders for increased discretion were, of course, delivered orally...
...medley relay final turned into a wild affair, with USC winning in 3:23:11. Three teams were bunched within .1 seconds of each other as SMU took second in 3:23:19, and Indiana, fourth with...