Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instance, did TRW put a 21-year-old, $140-a-week college dropout in such a sensitive post? Did the leaks really damage U.S. security? Perhaps Boyce and Lee actually were being used by the CIA to spread false evidence. If not, concludes Lindsey, then "the affair of the snowman and the spy who called himself Falcon was an episode that demonstrated amazing ineptitude on the part of the Central Intelligence Agency." Even the most casual readers of newspaper headlines will recognize the allegation as pure nonfiction. - Donald Morrison
...includes three wives, mistresses, ups, downs and flashbacks from movie history. Farber is present at the Creation. After his theater chain folds he becomes production assistant to Mack Sennett at D.W. Griffith's Biograph studios in New York. Sennett and Mabel Normand carry on their Keystone Kops love affair; Harold Lloyd simulates climbing the side of a building on a facade laid flat on the floor; Fatty Arbuckle takes a blueberry pie in the face; and Buster Keaton gives Charlie Chaplin costume advice for a tramplike character he hopes will make people laugh...
...friends detest. He thinks he is rekindling the socialist torch he carried when young, but his wife Clare scalds him: "You're addicted to your own self-importance and like a real junkie you need bigger and bigger doses to keep going." Strickland also becomes embroiled in an affair with an enormously rich young woman and realizes, belatedly, that she thinks he will break up his home for her. He argues to himself that her impression never came from him: "He might have had daydreams of Clare's demise but he had never thought of leaving her, with...
...here involved with a pair of noble decadents. Terence Stamp plays the one who begins his affair with her imagining it will be yet another bored dalli ance of the sort in which he specializes...
...Bruins fought back. Darryl Bolduc beat Crimson netminder Wade Lau at 13:13, and just over a minute later, John Slonim's second goal of the game (and the season) knotted the affair for good...