Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surface, Coming Home is the story of a love affair between the wife (Jane Fonda) of an unflinchingly patriotic Marine Corps captain (Bruce Dern) who is sent off to fight in Vietnam and a disabled and disillusioned veteran, played by Jon Voight. But beyond that, this film is about the aggression, insensitivity, and sexism; about the types of thought (or lack of it) that render these things acceptable. Although the film is set in Los Angeles in 1968, at the beginning of the Tet Offensive, it is not a specific criticism of our Vietnam policies. Rather, it attempts to prove...
...about Gary Gilmore, the executed murderer. "It's a new angle," agreed Capote, 53, who is called the "Tiny Terror" for rattling the skeletons of his celebrity friends in his novel-in-progress Answered Prayers. Capote's next book, he says, will be about "a disastrous love affair I had." The T.T.'s proposed literary style: high comedy...
...nightcap with St. Lawrence was the Crimson's closest and perhaps best outing of the trip. It was a scoreless affair until the bottom of the seventh inning when first baseman Mark Bingham walked and then scored on reserve slugger Dave Knoll's double...
...Hofstra affair was the kind that makes you wonder what makes coaches, players and fans alike subject themselves to emotional torture in the first place. Hofstra won the game on a shot that hit both posts and went in at 14:59 of the fourth period--that's right, folks, one lousy second left...
...short, Alan Freed was not the angel with a damaged wing that American Hot Wax shows us. The payola affair is mentioned briefly in one scene, but Freed's relationship to it is fudged. The movie ends with an ominous subtitle epilogue which informs us that Freed was indicted and died "penniless" shortly thereafter. This is a truth which is distorted by its context. The real Freed was indeed a Messiah of rock and roll, but not for its own sake alone. He had lots to gain. The treatment of Freed points up the main feature of this movie...