Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 550 ladies slogged through Washington, D.C.'s record snowfall (14 in.) to a luncheon where Lady Bird Johnson, wife of the Senate majority leader, got a "Togetherness Award," presented to her by pert Dancer Marge Champion. Lurking together in the background were the affair's cosponsors, McCall's magazine and the Hecht Co., the capital's big department-store chain. Among other women honored for exemplifying "togetherness" (defined by McCall's Editor and Publisher Otis Wiese as "our greatest natural resource"): Adele Rogers, wife of the Attorney General; Author Bonaro W. (Understanding Fear...
...Accuse! (M-G-M). The Dreyfus Affair was a tremendous social and political upheaval that rumbled on long after the legal proceedings (1894-1906) were closed, and in the process almost shattered France's Third Republic. In / Accuse!, the sordid, splendid story is told on the screen for at least the sixth time. Mistakes have been made in the picture: the political repercussions of the affair are scarcely suggested, and the fateful social struggle which it dramatized is fobbed off with some anti-Semitic dialogue and a few shots of screaming headlines and howling mobs. What survives...
...that, in.any case, responsibility for the attack must be laid at the door of Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba for allowing Algerian rebel forces to use Sakiet as a base of operations. "It is evident," ended Gaillard coolly, "that the French government does not recognize culpability in this affair...
...songs she made famous in small cafés. Her voice, never sumptuous, wobbles badly in such numbers as Let Me Love You and You Will Wear Velvet, but the phrasing is impeccable, and she can still infuse songs like Some Fine Day and The End of a Love Affair with an emotional charge that other singers never guessed was there...
...senses" from which Rimbaud concocted his visions of hell. The difference is that Jack Kerouac, ex-merchant seaman, ex-railroad brakeman, is not Rimbaud but a kind of latrine laureate of Hobohemia. The story line of The Subterraneans is simple and stark: it concerns a short, manic-depressive love affair between a "big paranoic bum" and occasional writer named Leo Percepied and a near-insane Negro girl named Mardou Fox. Says Kerouac: "I wrote this book in three full-moon nights," and it reads that way. The details of the Leo-Mardou relationship are explicit and near pornographic...