Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...characters are Doris (Ellen Burstyn) and George (Alan Alda), strangers who meet at a motel and end up in bed. Though married to others, the hero and heroine continue their affair on a one-weekend-per-year basis. Luckily, Writer Bernard Slade monitors the couple at five-year rather than annual intervals...
When this couple, so prodigious in their ambition, self-deception and passion, first fell in love, she was the wife of Hans von Billow, a great Wagner admirer who often conducted his work. For a few years Bulow tolerated the affair, even though it brought two Wagner babies into his household. One reason for the unusual arrangement was that all three wanted to keep the scandal from the young King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who was their adoring, idealistic patron. Finally in 1868, pregnant once again, Cosima left for Switzerland to live with Wagner, and here the diary begins...
Temperatures dropped below zero with the wind chill factor, and light snow flurries made the course treacherously slippery, making the race a miserable affair for the 241 individual competitors...
...APPROVAL of a resolution by the Kennedy School of Government's Student Association calling on the school to rename the Charles Engelhard Library of Public Affairs, marks a significant if hardly decisive point in the Engelhard affair. Given the usual ineffectiveness of student governing groups, the Kennedy School's student association resolution will not by itself force the administration to remove Engelhard's name. But it is important, because it is the first organized symbol of resistance from within the school itself, a crucial addition to the usual groups associated with the South Africa issue at Harvard...
...result, the organizing committee has ambitious plans for the affair, including a banquet at the Pi Eta club where awards will be presented by a celebrity to be named at a leter date. They also hope to produce tournament t-shirts and to circulate a newsletter ("The Galactic Flash") complete with a top-ten poll and scoring statistics...