Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also an imposing presence offscreen. One of the first actors to create an independent production company, Lancaster had a rangy entrepreneurial curiosity. In some of the films he produced, such as Paddy Chayefsky's Marty (an Oscar winner in 1955) and The Catered Affair, the star did not appear. But he got the pictures made, and they set the mood for other sympathetic dramas about little people -- Hollywood's neatly scrubbed version of Italian neorealism...
President Clinton, at the central photo-op of his six-country Mideast tour, said today's signing of the treaty between Israel and Jordan made peace in the region "unstoppable." After presiding over the affair with Jordan's King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin -- the podium, symbolically, was erected on a former mine field on the two countries' border -- Clinton made a peace offering to uneasy Jordanian Muslims. "We respect Islam," he announced, to loud applause from at least one side of the river Jordan. That appeared to set up his next line, a condemnation of Islamic terrorists...
Warren Beatty and Annette Bening star in Love Affair...
Handsome couple, swell clothes, upper-crust settings, smart, sexually sparring dialogue and a plot device that contrives to keep the pair apart until you think you -- and they -- are about to burst. It worked in 1939. It worked in 1957, when it was retitled An Affair to Remember. It even worked last year when it was extensively quoted in Sleepless in Seattle. How is it, then, that Love Affair doesn't work...
...Warren Beatty), was shadowed by Catholic guilt about his careless ways. (Remember those poignant visits to his wise old auntie's chapel?) These scruples served two functions: they heated up forbidden desires, and they gave a certain bent logic to the three-month hiatus the couple imposed on their affair, ostensibly to shed other commitments, really for the chaste contemplation of this one's radical implications...