The bed in a mediocre seaside boarding house is "a stately, high-built, Italianate affair fit for a Doge," the headboard "polished like a Stradivarius".
While not created especially for the festive season, dinner at Sushi Shikon is nonetheless a luxurious affair fit for Christmas celebrations.
And to have done health and welfare would have raised too many awkward questions... doing financial affairs fitted in with all our discussions about... our money".
Legrand later said that Jewison cut the highly charged seven-and-a-half-minute chess game scene between Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair to fit the music, which begins with a solo harp and ends with a big band playing a jazz waltz.
Despite the cultural gulf, both incidents, the president's and the minister's, which were incited by peripheral, if not actually private, affairs, prompted fits of national anguish: for Americans about sex, for Germans about integrity.
The entire affair is fitting, though, as a microcosm of the dynamics behind the larger problem of sexual violence on college campuses.
A frantic affair of cycling fits and starts, Trott dominates The Devil Takes the Hindmost to such an extent that one could be forgiven for presuming it is not the movements of rivals she analyses through that perspex visor, but a torrential matrix-style downpour of green digital rain.
Given the duration of their love affair, it was fitting that their sixth and final bout took place on 14 February, Valentine's night.
Ofcom, Britain's broadcast media and telecoms regulator, has been investigating whether, in the light of the phone-hacking affair, BSkyB is "fit and proper" to hold a broadcasting licence.
Stone has made films on 9/11 (World Trade Center) and George Bush (W), His latest project is a TV series, The Untold History of the United States, that focuses on under-reported events – although the Snowden affair could hardly fit into that category.
