Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During three hours of testimony, Bell described the Marston affair as "the most about nothing I've ever heard." He roundly discounted Marston's skills as an investigator of political corruption in Pennsylvania and claimed that Marston had "practically destroyed the morale of [his] office." Indeed, said Bell, Marston has never tried a case. The real "moving force" in the probes was Alan Lieberman, a Marston subordinate and career Government lawyer who is still in charge of them. Bell described Marston as good at "calling press conferences" and remembered that when the U.S. Attorney's office...
...novel is strategically seeded with role reversals. Garp, raised on the campus of a New England boys' school where his mother is head nurse, exhibits strong maternal instincts. When his wife decides to have an affair, she behaves with all the distracting caution of the philandering commuter. The most striking sexual suspect is Roberta Muldoon, formerly Robert, a transsexual who once played tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles. She is Garp's closest friend and squash partner...
...grass California scene. When Talon detects a curious and erroneous-or doctored?-cloud cover masking a remote area of Nepal, he bucks the Establishment to prove his suspicions, survives sundry assassination attempts and blows open a nasty conspiracy within the Company. He also manages a rather touching love affair and some motorcycle exploits worthy of Evel Knievel...
...afternoon-cap of the doubleheader was definitely the more pleasant affair of the two. The sun sort of came out of the clouds, Harvard bats finally made some noise above the Mason-Dixon line, and the Woodsmen axed three more grounders to embarrass themselves further...
Give coach John Higginson credit for prophesizing about the loss to a strong Scarlet Knight eight by 6:05.7 to 6:12.3. The veteran mentor entered the affair pessimistic about the result but optimistic about what he would glean from watching his charges under...