Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to the Scriptures, Christ said to the woman taken in adultery. "Go, and sin no more." Would he, speaking in today's clichés, say something like this: "As to your extramarital affair: Was it self-liberating, other-enriching, life-serving, creative, integrative and joyous? If so, then it was morally acceptable. Go now, and have a good...
Kahn's ability to avoid the mawkish trivialities shows in his two recent books. The first, The Boys of Summer, was a story of his love affair with the old Brooklyn Dodgers, the Ebbets Field titans like Snider and Furillo and Robinson, and how they braved the autumn of their retirement. Suffused with the warmth of an adoring child who has recognized the mortality of his idols, the book was an endearing autobiography as well as a finely-tooled bit of nostalgia...
...them have relatively good voices, and once in a while they manage to engage the audience's sympathy despite the play's flaws; but the cliches destroy the effect almost immediately. We can cheer Angel's decision to break out of the marriage when her husband has an affair--Angel does a brilliant job with "Flaming Agnes," the song that marks the crisis--but she is jerked almost immediately back to the traditional role, better expressed in songs like "What is a Woman" (answer: "A woman is only alive when she's in love"). This is a very predictable play...
...more lawyers are hired to battle more attorneys on the other side. The Guinness Book of World Records gives its longevity award to a lawsuit that was filed in Poona, India, in 1205 and not settled until 1966.* In France, Attorney Jean d'Everlange vividly recalls the "Santoni affair," a controversy over the ownership of some...
...duet for a sax man and a girl singer, but with the soloists in a different key from the band. Smack in the midst of the gold-tinsel snowfalls and the studied unreality of the sound stages, Scorsese spins out a naturalistic, contemporary-feeling melodrama about a love affair that goes sour...