Word: affair
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...whatever the directorial interpretation, Betrayal remains a riveting play. This is largely due to the regressive action; Pinter begins at the end and shifts backwards through time. The nine scenes in Betrayal trace the collapse, decline, and eventual establishment of an affair between Jerry (John Ducey) and Emma (Reid Cottingham), the wife of Jerry's best friend Robert (Glenn Kiser...
When we first meet the illicit couple, their affair has been over for two years; subsequent vignettes show Robert's discovery of their love, the moments in a rented flat in which Jerry and Emma attempt to create their own alternative household, and, finally, the drunken winter party at which Emma is unable to resist Jerry's passionate advances...
Tailgate parties before L.S.U. football games are an all-day affair in Baton Rouge. Vendors set up, even for a night game, during the morning. By noon the vans are rolling in from all over the state to raise their family marquees. The vans, trucks and station wagons are traveling statements. One has a horn that bugles "Glory, glory, hallelujah" as it enters the parking area. Some are equipped with public-address systems through which the owners issue cheers, personal manifestos and invitations to join them for a drink. On the platform atop one large van, Confederate flags flying from...
...just wish I'd handled the Pasternak affair the way I dealt with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ((published in 1962)). In that case, I read the book myself. It is very heavy but well written. It made the reader react with revulsion to the conditions in which Ivan Denisovich and his friends lived while they served their terms...
Cheney appointed Pacific Air Force General Merrill McPeak as Dugan's successor and declared the affair at an end. Perhaps. But after reading General Dugan's scenario, America's allies may remain nervous about what other unilateral military adventures rest in the Pentagon's safes...