Word: affaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sassy toss of her blonde bob, a slash of red lipstick, and a sultry snarl, the debrouillarde has done it again. she is the German Heartbreak Kid. Predictably, Oswald falls for her; and precitably, she makes no bones as to who is boss. "You're not having an affair with me," she intones smartly. "I'm having one with you." Touche...
...Brauns. Herman has been home for a day and they are preparing to make love. "I gave you everything," Maria tells Herman. "My whole life. Got a match?" Mistakenly, she left the gas on. Boom. Both go up in flames, a tragi-comic resolution to the whole affair. After evincing such uncanny survival skills, Maria Braun is undone by a measly cigarette. In the background Fassbinder adds the last little fillip of irony: we hear over the radio that Germany has just won the World Soccer Championships...
...businessman who spends much time away from home while his wife putters in the garden and eventually with the nurseryman. Instead of staging a showdown, the husband sends his daughter to boarding school and his wife to work for the nurseryman. The professional association is fatal to the affair. Laments the nurseryman: "The roles of Duggie and myself were reversed: when Duggie came home once a week now from Brussels it was he who seemed to be the lover and I the husband. Sally grew very sharp with both of us and Duggie and I stood apart, on our dignity...
Dinner is a family affair, with Kennedy, a meat-and-potatoes man, sometimes acting as chef. A favorite: steaks with lots of Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. He drinks wine with his meals and takes a Scotch and soda or two at night. After dinner he often plays charades or other parlor games with the children until about 9:30, when he turns to his attache case for bedtime reading...
Perhaps the only mystery in the Dayan affair was why he remained in the Begin government as long as he did. Dayan had made no secret of the fact that he disagreed with Begin's hard-line policy in dealing with the Palestinians. He genuinely want ed to reach some kind of agreement with the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza over their future relations with Israel (see box); Begin seemed content to let the status quo drift on forever. Because of this disagreement, Dayan refused to head the Israeli delegation in the autonomy talks...