Word: affaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...script creates an exhausting round robin of ethical and personal conflicts for its hero. Should Tynan lead the fight against a racist Supreme Court nominee, or should he remain silent out of deference to an old colleague (Melvyn Douglas)? Should he carry on an affair with a bright Southern civil rights lawyer (Meryl Streep) or remain faithful to his equally bright and attractive wife (Barbara Harris)? Should he pursue his presidential ambitions or spend more time at home with his increasingly estranged kids? Not only do these dilemmas have the aura of the casebook about them, but they are also...
Salim, the protagionist, is an archetypal Naipaul character--East Indian, sallow, passive and alienated. Salim's lethargy reflects his anxiety about the ultimate, senseless violence. As the president's forces creep deeper into the interior, Salim becomes more desperate. He tries twice to rouse himself, via an affair and a flight to London where illusions of a Western civilized arcadia lie. But neither succeeds as a safety-value. Salim renounces all hope and returns to Africa, only to find that the violent abyss has widened...
...much earlier novelist than Karl May sparked the German "love affair" with our American West. He was H.B. Möllhausen, an artist-naturalist who in 1857-58 accompanied Lieut. Joseph C. Ives on the first Colorado River expedition. Möllhausen returned to Germany to become a popular novelist who recaptured the American West from his own experiences. May perhaps resembles Zane Grey, but Möllhausen was actually compared to James Fenimore Cooper...
...Pakistanis also contend that there is no such person as Abdul Qadar Khan. Meanwhile, the Dutch government, which two weeks ago admitted the security slip at Almelo, is deeply embarrassed by the whole affair and is conducting an investigation-albeit four years late...
...squad during his own basic training and learns that trying to be fair is a kind of condescension. A sophisticated Eastern writing teacher plays Pygmalion to a gifted but corn-fed coed in Iowa. A stoic, weanling New York lawyer is gently and blessedly maneuvered into an affair with a middle-aged woman. An incipient Washington administrator's friendship with a young Soviet reveals the bureaucratic fate that awaits them both...