Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comfortably but somewhat shabbily furnished. Irving has said that he is trying to sell it and move to better quarters higher on the hill overlooking the sea. But his style of life prompts some speculation about the financial well-being he has described in the midst of the Hughes affair. Irving has claimed that his wife is "independently wealthy," with $100,000 in stocks, plus additional capital yielding $10,000 a year. On occasion in recent weeks he has bristled at the suggestion that he might be looking for quick money, pointing to his $150,000 four-book contract with...
...Throughout the siege, she has maintained her wit and poise. "If I'd taken that $650,000," she joked at one point, "do you think I'd be sitting here with this man?" There are even those who subscribe to a Lady Macbeth scenario of the Hughes affair...
...while thoroughly enjoying himself. His latest enthusiasms combine an old appetite for philandering with a sweet tooth for the styles of the young. Long hair, mod clothes, of course. But there is also his composition Elevations 9, a chamber concerto for violin, sitar, bass guitar and bongos, and his affair with an ob noxiously ill-tempered girl named Sylvia. Despite the novel's rather straight forward title, she turns out to be only...
...illegality . . . dirty ole man luring child into disused plate-layer's hut and plying her with wine-gums and dandelion-and-burdock to induce her to remove knickers and slake his vile lusts." Wife Kitty always knows when Sir Roy is off and rutting because each new affair is signaled by his stockpiling new undershorts...
...Hughes affair appeared last week to be headed toward a denouement. Its elaborate mysteries began to unravel a bit. Its bafflements still invited ingenious hypotheses, yet it seemed likely that after episodes as odd as the circumstances of Howard Hughes' own life, the truth of the matter was about to emerge. In a reverse jigsaw-puzzle effect, the outlines of the truth began to take form as Author Clifford Irving's account of how he had assembled the Hughes manuscript began to crumble...