Less noted, perhaps, is the retrenchment of Roman Catholicism in France from the aggressive political role it played as recently as the Dreyfus affair toward the inward-turning N.G.O. it is today: the energy that produced Sacré Coeur in Montmartre now expresses itself in the number of water wells dug in Africa.
Where to Party Small bars abound in Port Antonio, mostly modest affairs geared toward locals.
He turned away from gambling and drinking and extramarital affairs, turned toward God and family and a political career.
Aszure Barton's "Lift" is a thigh-slapping, pseudo-primitive affair, nudged toward quirkiness by wobbly knees, off rhythms, a pas de deux in which a woman's nose is stuck to a man's collapsed sternum, and jumps in a clump, as if on a trampoline.
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.
A follow-up to the gallery's sharp, well-focused conceptual art presentation last season, this gathering of pieces by nine artists, subtitled "Conceptual Works II," is a generally polite and gentle affair, leaning toward pieces that give visual form to the way the mind works.
It's an antidote to the long slide into emotional, spiritual and sexual decline, or toward affairs and divorce.
That would have probably worked especially well for Trump both because American attitudes toward affairs have softened since the millennium and because he is awash in scandals that constantly displace each other.
Liberal newspapers and pamphlets seized on Pedro I's Portuguese birth in support of both valid accusations (e.g., that much of his energy was directed toward affairs concerning Portugal) and false charges (e.g., that he was involved in plots to suppress the Constitution and to reunite Brazil and Portugal).
Such a schema often dominates the factual content of texts, and it creates a strong bias toward recording foreign affairs, because in official ideology there is no internal dissent after the initial turmoil is over.
The trend toward getting one's affairs in order is not limited to Long Island.
