Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which the Lance affair was resolved revealed both laudable qualities and some disquieting ones in the still unfolding character of the nation's often baffling President. As he faced his first major crisis, Carter proved more compassionate and less cold-blooded than many people had expected. He manfully, if incorrectly, blamed only himself for the Washington travail of his former colleague in Georgia state government, and he showed no bitterness toward either Lance's sometimes irresponsible critics or an unrelenting, though generally accurate press...
Jody Powell, the other principal staff strategist in the Lance affair, turned out to have some of the Machiavellian instincts of Nixon's Ziegler-and about the same skill -when he tried to send newsmen chasing after Chuck Percy on a provably false charge. Surely there have been times in the past when presidential press secretaries have called up newsmen and suggested they check out rumors of wrong-doing by Senators. But that sort of thing is probably done less in reality than in the Washington novels...
...comic strip, and the local distributor pulled The Phantom from Wan-tok. Says Father Frank Mihalic, editor of Wantok: "I don't see any conflict with the Post-Courier. Because of translation problems, we're always behind them." In Australia, the Religious Press Association charged the affair was "one more tragedy to add to Australia's use of post-colonial stewardship," and appealed on behalf of Wantok to Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock. He eventually decided that a comic strip did not justify Australia's intervention in another country's internal affairs...
...Hall has the two underweight egos twine together, rose and briar. For a while they twitch as one, forming a touching sort of pill pool and neurosis bank in Alvy's Manhattan apartment. Then it is over. Annie drifts off to Los Angeles; Alvy writes a play about the affair, wistfully giving it a happy ending in which the lovers unite. The film's details are not meant to match reality exactly. Keaton, then 22, and Allen, then 33, met when he was casting his Broadway comedy Play It Again, Sam, not after a tennis match; her career was farther...
Whether or not their actual affair now seems in some ways funny to them, Allen's humor has never fitted its subject better. Annie Hall addicts have been returning to theaters three and four times. Allen fans recite bits such as the one that shows Alvy and Annie, on a split screen, talking to their shrinks about the frequency with which they have sex. "Hardly ever," says Alvy, aggrieved; "maybe three times a week." "All the time," says Annie, fed up; "at least three times a week...