Word: affair
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...relays are a pretty patched-up affair for us." McCurdy said, referring to injuries that have sidelined Ed Diamond and Howard Wilson. "You're going to see some worried Crimson-types if we have to win one of them." Neither Tiger four-some was beaten during the indoor season...
...place on the list of Decisive Political Events of the last few years, it has suffered one major flaw as a political rallying point. In the age of televised history-when millions of clectronic witnesses have personally seen conventions, assassinations, riots, and marches-the trial remained a basically private affair. The TV cameras that made it to the moon could not enter Judge Julius Hoffman's District Court. And so the public was left to feed on the daily press reports, all of which seemed to begin. In its most tumuhuons day yet the Chicago trial...
...This flight has been taken spaceshots out of the realm of a hohum affair. We are not really in control...
Love Is a Funny Thing is a kind of dual romance. It is simultaneously the story of an affair between a French film actress (Annie Girardot) and a composer (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and a testament to Director Claude Lelouch's passion for the U.S. The whole country becomes a vast film set through which Lelouch moves his actors with the abandon of an intoxicated tourist...
...sunshine. The lovers first meet on the set of a Hollywood film in which she plays the lead. He has been commissioned to write a suitably romantic score "with a lot of fiddles." Prolonged transatlantic phone calls to their respective mates serve only to increase the passion of an affair begun as a kind of mutual convenience. Their first night together is amusing, satisfying, but also rather flippant. When the time approaches for him to leave, however, he proposes on a whim that they fly off to Las Vegas for a night. On a whim-and perhaps on the hope...