Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...linksmen defeated both Providence and Dartmouth last weekend in a high-scoring affair at the Wollaston Golf Club but yesterday the Friars managed a series of sub-eighty sorties over Pleasant Valley with rounds...
...spring practice now plays a different role. Coaches no longer rely on preseason non-conference games to get their players ready for league play. In the race for top rankings which bring national attention, which brings television appearances, which bring money, no longer is any game a preseason affair. Spring practice has taken the place of fall preseason. All personnel and strategy decisions are made long before the team reports in August. That all-out session at USC has become necessary so that the team can be set and ready before the season even begins. Like the pros, college football...
...their love affair is a conventional one-first meeting and wary attraction, a fairly smooth sail into bed (art movies and paperbacks are the food of love), a mutual discovery of annoying foibles, which predicts the big breakup. It comes finally over her developing career and her cheerful acceptance of the lunatic notion that Los Angeles offers a viable setting for a civilized life...
...greatest departure from form, and probably the hardest role of her career, is in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which finished shooting last February. She worked without a break for 76 days, some of the time with a cracked rib, playing a sexually compulsive schoolteacher who travels from affair to affair in Manhattan singles bars and finally to her doom...
Last year. All the President's Men; this year, all the abbess's nuns. Nasty Habits, adapted from Muriel Spark's 1974 novella The Abbess of Crewe, uses the goings-on at a Roman Catholic abbey outside Philadelphia to burlesque the Watergate affair...