Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says, "I'm going out and have a good time, and Ted knows about it." As for Ted, he does not stay at home either. In February, for example, he spent a few days skiing in Aspen with former Olympic Skier Suzy Chaffee. But speculation about a love affair, said Chaffee, 31, before giving a gymnastics performance last week at a Manhattan charity benefit, is nonsense. Suzy says she "has a man in her life and his initials are not T.K." Anyway, she asked, "If Rockefeller were skiing with Kennedy, would people assume they were having an affair...
...dissent, Justices Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens argued that the court had used the Presidential Recordings Act to frustrate the law's own purpose. Congress clearly intended, Marshall wrote, to ensure the American people "full access to all facts about the Watergate affair." Added Stevens: "For this court now to rely on the act as a basis for reversing the trial judge's considered judgment is ironic, to put it mildly...
Onstage, Misha and Gelsey were magic from the start. A trial-run pas de deux from Don Quixote dazzled audiences in Winnipeg and later in Washington. Offstage, a love affair flared up between them, along with much professional bickering. Against a common background of rigorous classical training, Baryshnikov relied on instinct, Gelsey on analysis. Rehearsals became long and exasperating. They argued about the meaning of different positions. He: "It's arabesque, it's position." She: "No, it can be different in every ballet." There was also some competitive brain-picking. Gelsey sought the secrets of the Kirov's impeccable style...
Amid all the praise, Gelsey was becoming increasingly miserable and insecure. Her affair with Misha fizzled out when he moved on to others. Says a friend: "It was all a romantic little dream, but it did not turn out that way. It was hard on her, but not as hard as the problem of dancing with someone who gets so much acclaim...
Schickel, a writer-producer-director of TV documentaries, and cinema reviewer for TIME, is 45 and a veteran of one marriage and one divorce. Yet he writes with the freshness and emotional intensity of a 20-year-old memorializing his first love affair. His book is considerably more resonant than the customary first-love novel, however, perhaps because authors and characters in their 40s have deepened and mellowed, and those in their 20s are too raw to be consistently interesting...