the on-and-off, star-crossed romance-marriage-divorce
between two radical opposites: Jewish political activist Kate Morosky
(Barbra Streisand) and WASP writer Hubbell Gardner (Robert Redford),
spanning from the 30s, through World War II to the McCarthy-era
1950's
the tearjerking final scene in which they accidentally
met up again in New York after many years, as she was handing out "Ban
the Bomb" leaflets; the strains of the Oscar-winning title song
(heard in the background during the opening credits) was reprised
in the final sequence when she characteristically brushed the hair
back on his brow music from Marvin Hamlisch - "Mem'ries, like
the corners of my mind / Misty water-colored memories of the way
we were")