Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maker starts to get into trouble here because the bed hopping is so preposterously cross-generational. Angelo begins by having it off with the younger Hardeman's mistress, Lady Ayres (names with metaphorical overtones seem to be a Robbins specialty), as a kind of warm-up for his affair with Betsy-not the car, but the fourth-generation Hardeman (Kathleen Seller) after whom the vehicle is named. For a delicious moment or two later on, it looks as if the ever fit Angelo might also make it with the younger Hardeman's estranged wife...
...Atlanta in January, he served as chairman of a $500-a-plate "Southern Salute to the President" that raised almost $1 million for the Democratic National Committee. Judging from the reception Lance gets, especially in the South, his reputation has not unduly suffered. At a recent fund-raising affair in Greensboro, N.C., Lance shared the platform with Vice President Walter Mondale. The supposedly disgraced banker was introduced by a local pol as "the best thing there was or is about the Carter Administration." Hardly anyone batted...
...always, kudos can be given out in bunches, especially after the Crimson's best-played affair since the 4-3 (that score again?) loss to B.U. on Pearl Harbor...
...fierce com petition, business in the Valley of the Chips re mains something of a family affair. The corporate Abraham of the industry was Shockley Transistor Corp., founded in Palo Alto in 1956 by William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor and a Nobel laureate...
Sally and Luke's romance is the heart of Coming Home. Though the illicit affair of a beautiful woman and a cripple is potentially mawkish stuff, Ashby usually does not allow his story to become overly sentimental. He does not view the couple's relationship as a panacea for all their emotional problems, and he refuses to shy away from harsh detail. When Luke finally leaves his wheelchair to join Sally in bed, the hero's handicaps bring the ensuing sex scene an added poignance...