Less than a month after Emma Hardy died in 1912, Florence Dugdale, a writer with whom Hardy had most likely been having an affair, moved into Max Gate.
The couple's slow approach to what could be an adulterous affair moves forward at the highest level of literacy: each pauses before speaking and then utters a perfectly formed sentence.
And as the Gusinsky affair moves to its next, more political, phase, the spotlight will be on Mr. Putin's ability to handle a challenge that has now spread far beyond the boundaries of Mr. Gusinsky's media empire.
So does the process of browning the meat before cooking it amid a thatch of onions in the heat of a low oven, where the smothering actually occurs, where the whole affair moves from a gathering of ingredients to a composed and immensely flavorful meal.
As the love affair moves toward its denouement, Yair's letters -- and, later, Miriam's diary -- travel into such fleeting, wrenching areas of emotion that certain passages demand to be reread, as if one can't believe the pure, intuitive truth they contain.
Now, as the Edward Snowden affair moves on into what already feels like its 91st week, Obama is staring down his own personal Watergate – a death-by-a-thousand-cuts fall from grace.
The visual, then, is seen as demographic: the form-patterns people actually make in their lives, answering basic needs; patterns like those made by people in their quotidian affairs, moving about the city (that paradigmatic immersive technology), trying to live their desires.
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all get on with their 'local' affairs, move faster, initiate quicker, are more creative than England.
In Mailer's retelling of it, the recent history of the country becomes largely its secret history; assassination plots and love affairs move the levers of reality.
