Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrested and held for three hours, then released. Soviet authorities blocked transmission of U.S. wire-service photos of the incident and prevented CBS from sending satellite pictures of the woman chained to the fence. The next day, embassy officials formally protested the interference, and Vance specifically mentioned the affair in his talks with Gromyko. That led to one of the most contentious exchanges of the visit, with Gromyko complaining sharply about the Carter Administration's continuing emphasis on human rights...
...game was a rough seesaw affair, with Harvard scoring in spurts and UNH scrambling back. It was 7-4, Harvard, at the half...
...casino owner-cum-international tungsten cartel boss. It revolves around two sinister triangles: one, a quasi-homosexual link between the tungsten boss, the boss's sword-cane, and Glenn Ford (the other, between Rita Hayworth, the tungsten boss (who marries her), and Ford (who has had a bitter affair with her and becomes the boss's lieutenant). The clash of the two triangles nearly destroys all three of them, and makes possible the emergence of the movie's real theme, the relation between sexuality and power. "Gilda" is extremely similar in its tone and its themes to another favorite...
...Spring Affair '78--Party in Science Center Courtyard...
...whole affair might well have been a two-team slufgest, had Penn not come up with a couple of unusually strong pitching performances from its consistently weak hill staff...