Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This, of course, is more or less a Gallic rehash of "Brief Encounter," a movie that was effective in its plain, believable, and studiously underplayed plot. "L'Affaire" on the other hand, relies on all sorts of accidents and coincidence to push along its story line, and is not believable at all. Both movies sell the same moral: adultery can be fun but there's no place like home. With a quick flick of its subtitles "L'Affaire" could just as easily prove the converse...
Judge Irving Kaufman looked down at the man & woman before him. "Plain, deliberate, contemplated murder is dwarfed in magnitude by comparison with the crime you have committed," he told Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in a hoarse, faint voice. "I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb . . . has already caused the Communist aggression in Korea . . . and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason...
Recently, Nocht began to miss his home. Despite Western warnings, Nocht went to Berlin. Early last month, he moved into his old home in the Russian sector, cautiously going out only at night. A few days later, three men in plain clothes called on Nocht and took him away at pistol-point. That, at week's end, was the last anyone had heard of the man who had got homesick...
George Albert Smith was born poor and grew up proud. As a plain, gawky kid in Salt Lake City, he always remembered that he bore one of the most illustrious names in Mormonism: his grandfather had been a cousin of Founder Joseph Smith. George worked hard to live up to his name. His father's house had no front lawn and he labored to put one in, then toted water for it from an irrigation ditch every night. He started to work making overalls, later on he became a successful salesman...
Although the varsity was never in trouble, its all-around performance left much to be desired. The defense, particularly, seemed careless, especially on clearance. Bernard's sparkling body saves hampered the attack, which lacked sharpness, anyway; on several occasions, the forwards and the midfielders collided, or just plain missed connections...