Word: affair
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...Stronger is not a feminist play--Strindberg is commonly considered a misogynist--but it portrays women whose lives are defined by their relations with a man (the unnamed husband of one, who had an affair with the other). As director Sonya Rasminsky '92 says, "if the man were to disappear, these women would have no relationship...
...goes by the name of the Pine Grove Elementary School, a stark clapboard affair the size of a mobile home, some 40 miles of gravel road from Jordan, a hiccup of a town on the plains of eastern Montana. Pine Grove is one of 640 one-room public schoolhouses left in the U.S., a good example of a vanishing breed that occupies a hallowed place in American mythology. And the formula still works. Montana alone has more than 100 one-room schools in operation, and the state ranks third nationally in achievement tests...
Whereas last year's affair at the Palestra was dominated by Ralph James's 41 points from the field, this year's contest was dominated by James's performance from the line. The senior co-captain converted 11 of his 13 attempts from the charity stripe, including 9 of 10 opportunities in the second half...
...trials, which were closed to reporters, were the first related to the Tiananmen affair; at least another 355 protesters are yet to have their day in court. In demonstrating leniency, the court was clearly influenced by international pressure to improve Beijing's record on human rights, which was blighted by the massacre of protesters. Though many countries have rebuilt shattered ties with China, the country still suffers from a sharp drop in foreign investments and tourism...
Symposium by Muriel Spark. Ten guests assemble for a fashionable London dinner party, with no idea of just how murderously interesting the affair will turn out to be. The author here approaches the sinister elegance of her The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961). She introduces fundamental issues -- salvation and sin, inspiration and insanity, free will and destiny -- through the medium of light but lethal comedy...