One senior literary gent took me to his club for lunch, and on the steps afterwards, apropos of nothing except a display of his own worldliness, explained that one should never "pursue an illicit liaison" within the space "from the Embankment to the Euston Road, and from the Gray's Inn Road to Regent Street".
And when I do, he offers only a single word, a simple, affectless adjective, to describe how he feels about his new space liaison, how he feels about sending two cosmonauts to orbit, challenging Russian-America relations and perhaps challenging relations between governments and their wealthiest citizens for quite some time.
His father retired as a Navy captain and was stationed in Germany, where he was the American space command's liaison officer to the commander in chief of the European command.
She'll be working as his earth liaison while he's in space and seems pretty confident that she'll be the first astronaut on Mars.
It's all very queer: a space of dangerous liaisons, splices and cuts.
That means serving as a liaison among tech companies, co-working spaces, universities, investors and politicians — and also making sure that attention is paid to the entire region, not just the Westside.
Senator Symington, who conducted an investigation into the problem earlier this year, found that the liaison committee between the two halves of the space programme was not working properly.
Ockels served as a ground communicator and liaison-scientist for the crew on board the space shuttle Columbia during the STS-9/Spacelab-1 minsion in 1983.
A music review on Monday about the second installment of "Liaisons: Reimagining Sondheim From the Piano," at Symphony Space in Manhattan, misstated the name of one of the lovers in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's "Passion" who sings the opening duet, one of the pieces reworked in the concert.
Not a place for an illicit liaison.
