Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around." Apprehensive local officials, backed by court orders, had prevented some of the biggest names in the world of rock-Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone-from performing at the Powder Ridge Ski area near Middlefield, Conn. Undaunted, some 20,000 youngsters turned the reckless affair into a cheerily noisy "people festival...
...Rodgers and Hart show tunes and one of the guests-those present swore to conceal her identity-performed an acceptable cancan. Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth loved it. That party was staged in Manhattan more than a decade ago. This year's birthday celebration, "a biggish affair with family and close friends," according to the palace's description, will be one fully befitting a royal septuagenarian. Seventy is stately and sugary, according to Cecil Beaton's official photo portrait, which shows the smiling Queen Mother in diamonds and pearls against a backdrop of flowering rhododendron...
...fined for only a traffic violation, but Opera Manager Alberto Tantini was able to fix things with Police Chief Aldo Ballarini. A third gentleman of Verona, the magistrate, saw it all quite differently. He initiated a new charge against Callas of insulting a public official and even escalated the affair by accusing Tantini and Ballarini of bearing false witness and failing to report a misdemeanor. All that happened back in 1952. Last week, when an examining magistrate declared the case null and void because the statute of limitations had run out, not one "Che hello!" of triumph issued from...
...love affair with Helen (Jennifer Salt). a totally innocent and uncomprehending rich girl. alienates him even further. Williams edits quickly, without transition from one incongruous sequence to another, from factory life to a dinner party with bankers back to labor organizing emphasizing A.'s fragmented, confused, isolated world...
...father. Without Wilder's protean talents, the film could have been absurd: an upper-middle-class American girl studying at Trinity College (Margot Kidder) nearly runs Quackser over in an MG but winds up taking him to her farewell dance and ultimately to bed. Wilder makes the affair believable by investing his role with an appealing integrity as well as sexual overtones; he himself added two scenes early in the film in which Quackser stays his daily rounds long enough to dally with a lusty Gaelic wench. The romance is only part of the film; the rest concerns Quackser...