Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thanks in large part to lawyers, the U.S. retains one of the world's most accessible court systems and one of its most exhaustive lists of human rights. Much of the nation's strength flows from its respect for the law. But a long-is standing love affair with the law is in danger of turning obsessive and destructive ?if it has not already done so. Writing in the California State Bar Journal, J. Anthony Kline, a Yale-trained lawyer who serves as legal affairs secretary to California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., offers this catalogue: "The trial courts...
...shame, because the screenplay is built around an exciting idea. Malle and Scenarist Polly Platt have hypothesized a romance-and eventual marriage-between Heroine Violet (Brooke Shields) and E.J. Bellocq (Keith Carradine), the legendary photographer of Storyville's glory days. This couple's bizarre March-December affair, like the equally promising relationship between Violet and her prostitute mother (Susan Sarandon), is described only intermittently. Instead of coming to terms with the characters' emotions, Malle dithers away his movie on rowdy sequences that depict the upstairs-downstairs antics of his oldtime sporting-house setting. Despite Sven Nykvist...
Anyone concluding from that logic that the diamond market is a topsy-turvy affair best left to pros would be dead right. An uninitiated individual investor has to buy diamonds at retail, paying huge markups, but he can only sell his stones at wholesale levels. So the price has to rise considerably for the ordinary investor to break even. Meanwhile, he has cash tied up in an asset that pays no dividends or interest...
Also "not abnormal" for the pregnant, he asks many times, "Why me?" The audience then learns that doctor and patient had been lovers in college, and that he ended the affair when he learned that she was with child. She then swore revenge and celibacy, and her vow strengthened as she charted his career as a politician who came out against abortion. When she informs him that the hospital has a special committee which will consider his request for termination of the pregnancy, he promises that, given a second chance, he'll be more sympathetic to her cause. He then...
...anyone get excited about hitting a fuzzy yellow ball? Isn't it a strange affair for a group of six young men to travel around from college to college trying to hit these yellow fuzzies up over a nylon fish net and drop them back into a chalked all-too-small area on the other side? And consider the amount of emotion and energy they seem to get from playing this game; they feel such crushing disappointment or such a spirit-lifting intoxication, all depending on whether their team can successfully hit more of these woolly eggs than can their...