Word: trysts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thirty seven years ago, Jawaharlal Nehru declared that India had made a "tryst with destiny," a pledge to "awaken to life and freedom." It is time for us to redeem that pledge once again. The belief in freedom and independence that was so much live on in the hearts and minds of the people of India. The lamp that was lit by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawarharlal Nehru must...
Schlondorf handles the evolution of the romance skillfully, by using the associations of present to past in Swann's mind. A carriage ride hurtles his thoughts to a passionate tryst with Odette in the same carriage. The technique is confusing at first, since Schlondorf forswears the traditional wavering picture and weepy music school of flashback, but highly effective once the viewer becomes accustomed to the abrupt shifts from past to present...
...biggest daily, Rupert Murdoch's sensational tabloid, the Sun (circ. 4.2 million), for the unprincely sum of about $2,000. The first installment, splashed across two pages last week, purported to describe the "amorous antics" of the Queen's second son, Prince Andrew, 23, including one putative tryst in a gallery in Windsor Castle hung with portraits of his royal ancestors. Kenny was quoted as telling the Sun: "[Andrew's] dates were always young and fanciable. He was so sure of his chances-and so cheeky-that he would order double bacon and eggs the night before...
...Rich and Famous. The writers of Class, to be released next year, have provided her with yet another kinky roost: an elevator. Playing a philandering wife who prowls Chicago's singles bars, Bisset takes up with a virginal prep-school student, then whisks him off for a tryst. This is where the elevator comes in. Not the most transporting of conveyances, but it beats an escalator...
Nevertheless, it was a trifle name of him to think that a tropical tryst with a former porn star would escape at least some parental censure. When a vacationing photographer for the London Daily Mail spotted the prince and playmate Katherine "Koo" Stark on a flight to Barbados, all hell was bound to break loose. The photographer called the office, received orders to cancel his vacation and follow the prince instead, and was soon joined by a multitude of Fleet Street Johnies eager to cash in on the scoop...