Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Humphrey's papers had been appraised by Ralph Newman of Chicago, who had also set the value of the pre-presidential papers of Richard Nixon that were given to the National Archives. Newman has been indicted for his role in that affair, in which Nixon claimed tax deductions totaling $482,018. They were disallowed when the IRS determined that the deed for the papers had been illegally backdated. In Humphrey's case, however, there was no question of fraud. The IRS ruled that because he had limited public access to his papers for 25 years, his gift...
...marriage had dynastic overtones, but in the late 1950s Onassis struck up a long-playing romance with tempestuous Opera Diva Maria Callas. In 1960, Tina sued for divorce, after having given Onassis a son and heir, Alexander, and a daughter, Christina. Onassis' affair with Callas lasted nearly a decade, but by 1968, according to a friend, he was passionately in love with Jackie Kennedy. Their marriage prompted banner-and not always friendly-headlines throughout the world. JACKIE, HOW COULD YOU? asked Stockholm's Expressen...
...interviewer: French Novelist Françoise Sagan, 39, who has known the durable coquette for two decades. "I believe that exhibitionists are repressing feelings of shame," announced the oft-displayed Bardot when asked about eroticism in movies. "For me, love needs mystery, secrecy, silence. It is a very private affair." Will life ever change for the actress? "Perhaps in five years I will be forgotten, perhaps not," said Bardot. "I will be 45, and I will not have lost my beauty. And I will be able to live, perhaps, like everybody. No longer just a beautiful object...
...retreat. George is a certified public accountant (almost a religion to him) en route to working on a friend's income tax. She seems exhilarated, though considerably perturbed, while he quivers with guilt as he pulls on his trousers. They are much too decent to sustain an illicit affair and too happily married (or so they frequently and wholeheartedly insist) even to contemplate divorce. They do agree, however, to meet "same time, next year"-same bed-sort of like an annual college reunion...
What he finds is that the sins of the fathers are indeed visited upon their sons. His relationship with Keiko is doomed by the specter of his father's affair with Otoko. In a sense, he must repay Otoko, through Keiko, for his very existence--a life that was purchased at her expense...