Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their usual juicy tidbits about the doings of high society, Turkish gossip columns printed a curt and sober announcement last week: "Because of an agreement with the Turkish Newspaper Owners' Syndicate, we are discontinuing our society columns." Though the ban was made to seem a do-it-yourself affair, it was actually inspired by none other than Premier Adnan Menderes himself. The columnists, it seemed, had been giving too much gaudy publicity to The marriage of a former Miss Turkey to the mayor of Izmir, who also happens to be a cousin of the Premier's wife. Among...
...little blat-blat-blatting of small-car exhausts sounded more prominent as their big brothers collapsed, the Ferrari brakes were shot. Burned-out linings dropped off in frightening ashy hunks. But they had lasted just long enough. The Ferraris rolled easily to a finish that was strictly a family affair. Collins and his co-driver, California's Phil Hill, coasted home first. Another factory-entered Ferrari was an easy second. In third place came a perky little Porsche Spyder (1,587 cc.) that had played it cozy all through the race, lying back waiting for the front runners...
...pregnancy has been forced upon her by the black magic of the land's fierce sensuality. She flees to a sorcerer and dies in abortion. For a year, Owen's "chaste maple syrup soul" is frozen. Then he attends a frenzied voodoo initiation, slips into an illicit affair, takes to drink, and the tropics claim another victim...
...spent 23 years in Florence, and wrote against debt like Dostoevsky. She had a desperate, long and painful affair with a romantic Italian who claimed to be the inventor of the first gasoline engine. She seems to have committed the one fatal mistake a woman can make with a man-she made him feel a fool. Came the day when her lover cut her dead in public...
...tries to disabuse his followers by telling about a long-drawn-out adulterous affair in his past. Author Narayan lavishes more space on this part of his story than it may be worth, but in its course he etches three striking character portraits. The adulteress is an Indian Madame Bovary; the cuckolded husband is an academic mole blind to his wife's yearnings; and Raju himself is the perennially Circefied male. After his confession, Raju expects the villagers to renounce him. But they disbelieve him-or are wise enough to know that he is not the same...