Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French painters, not chiefly known as landscapists, also set down their impressions of that tawny city in which history lay preserved as in amber. None worked with a more impassioned delight than the master whose name was to become synonymous with classicism itself, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. His love affair with the city is celebrated by "Ingres in Rome," a collection of 150 drawings in Rome (135 from the Musee Ingres in his native town of Montauban and never seen in the U.S. before) that opens next week at the National Gallery in Washington...
...game had its exciting moments but in general was rather a listless affair. By the third period action had dropped to a bare minimum as only nine shots were fired on goal during the last period...
...crucial possibilities raised by the Haywood affair are that 1) the four-year rule will be abolished or redefined, and 2) the A.B.A. and the N.B.A. will be forced into a speedy merger. Like most team owners, Franklin Mieuli of the San Francisco Warriors feels that the four-year rule "is the guts of our player-acquisition program. Without it, we'd have a no man's land of finances in which a kid would be bombarded by offers. It would certainly make a mockery of the draft." As for the merger, Owner Bill Daniels of the A.B.A...
EVER since the New Deal, a common-law marriage has existed between the U.S. Government and private business. Like most such arrangements, the affair has been troubled by tensions and uncertainty. Despite four decades of alliance, the two parties are still wary of each other; at the same time they are becoming increasingly beholden to each other. The Government's money tempts business to ask for more and more aid. Politicians are reluctant to refuse to dole it out because business prosperity is needed to keep voters happy. Last year an otherwise lethargic Congress enacted a surprising amount...
...about choosing the proper wine, and so forth. Tina is being pecked not by a rooster but by a hen. Her lover, on the other hand, comes on as a virile, aggressive bastard with a sexy smile-and you know that if her husband were to find about the affair he would probably say, "Why Tina! I'm surprised at you; don't I give you all you need?" and then add, "But you know, he's a very famous author. I always knew you had it in you. In a way, Tina, I'm almost proud...