Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After seeing The Lacemaker, in which Huppert played a sweet dull-minded girl broken by her first love affair, it is impossible to believe that in real life she is not at least slightly bovine. Violette (for which she won the Best Actress award at this year's Cannes Festival) leaves the viewer convinced, contrarily, that she must be willful, neurotic and blown about by stormy emotions. Neither turns out to be the case. Her face is lively and full of intelligence, and it shows none of the opacity that she assumed for these two roles...
...last-place Crimson (0-2 Ivy, 2-2 overall) hosts first-place Dartmouth (2-0, 2-2) at 1:30 this afternoon in the Stadium, and if past confrontations mean anything, the 82nd meeting between these clubs will be a knock-down, drag-out affair...
Cambridge Health Department representative Joseph DeLeo, who has worked along with the University in this affair, said yesterday, "The problem is solved...
Everyone keeps telling me this affair's not meant...
...faithful paid $1,000 a plate to join the President in the crowded Washington Hilton ballroom. Leaning forward to admire his multitiered birthday cake, Carter accidentally shoved a hand into the pastry, but nothing could faze him. He simply waved a dripping hand to his admirers. Carter called the affair "the most successful presidential Democratic fund raiser in the history of the U.S.," and he assured the gathering: "We're taking control. Our nation is proud again." The guests roared their agreement...