Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it is all over, the Lam Son affair may well appear of limited value at best, though filled with great hazards. Just how great the hazards were will not be clear until the rest of the South Vietnamese make their...
...Programming Vice President Fred Silverman is rapidly ridding that network of its lingering Saturday Evening Post image, the casualty rate was the highest of all. Out, in addition to Sullivan, were such other golden oldies as Andy Griffith, Jim Nabors, The Beverly Hillbillies, Hogan's Heroes, Family Affair and Hee Haw. "The time has come to go big city as opposed to hayseed," says Silverman. Translation: CBS, adopting the reasoning of its competition, has decided that who watches a show is as important as how many. The young adult, metropolitan market is preferred by most sponsors because it buys...
Richard Skinner, manager of Printed Matter, appeared at a City Council meeting last Monday and blamed a Cambridge zoning law for the newsstand's failure. He said an investigation was necessary to look into what he termed "underhanded business" in the affair...
...which he will be able to keep. All the territory one might expect to find in a film about the first year of a marriage is here: the trivial spats, the role conflicts, the discussions about toothpaste, the birth of the first child, the first extra-marital affair. But as one expects, Antoine Doinel does not accept this rigmarole as an unquestionable natural order. He fights hard to break up the monotony until there is nothing left to do but give himself up to the dailiness of life...
...haphazard cruelty; he picks fights with her over everything from the newly born baby's name to the thank-you letter he must write to the Senator who arranged the installation of their telephone. Antoine is destructive in all this bickering, as well as in his affair, but it is hard to condemn him for it. There is no enthusiasm to his indecencies; rather, it is just the desperate, almost random lashings out of a man who rightfully cannot adjust to the prospect of settling down...