Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desperation Jane rents a room from her colleague Eddie, a quintessential Bull who, like Jane, is reeling from a broken love affair. While Eddie salves his loneliness by bed hopping with New Cows, Jane wallows in the feelings of unworthiness and unlovability endemic in Old Cows. "When Ray dumped me, all I wanted to know was why," she explains. "I almost think that's worse than the act itself--the not knowing." Only when her best female friend is also dumped does Jane begin to sense that it's the bulls, not the cows, who have the greater problem, giving...
...seeking to match the weeks of conferences and the international gathering of scholars that marked the University's 300th birthday in 1936, Harvard officials sought to create a comparatively low-key "family affair" this time around. Maybe it's the domino effect, or the Statue of Liberty syndrome, or the glitz-it-up promotionalism of the Yuppie Era. Call it what you will. But my God, Dr. Frankenstein, Harvard's created a monster. And it's alive...
...been struck -- at least, none has been announced. Reportedly, Lewinsky would reverse her earlier testimony and say she had a sexual relationship with President Clinton in exchange for immunity. But Starr wants to hear the ex-intern testify that Clinton and Vernon Jordan pressured her into covering up the affair...
...Neither did Bill -- at least none we know about. But these days it's all about tapes. And the patron flick of wiretappers has got to be The Conversation (1974). Gene Hackman has the Linda Tripp role, a surveillance pro who gets hired to uncover an affair. Eerily, he plays the sax. And Linda, this part's for you: when the dirt Hackman digs gets folks in trouble, he develops a severe conscience problem. Stay till the end -- it's a doozy. Watching a tortured Gene tear up a Virgin Mary is chilling...
...lawyer Jim Moody, who described his client as a "girl scout" who tried to do the right thing, said she was motivated by self-protection. Anticipating that she would be called as a witness in the unfolding Paula Jones case, she wanted evidence that Lewinsky had confessed an affair with Clinton. But Tripp had an even longer standing interest in the White House's sexual mores. After her friend Gary Aldrich was discredited by the White House for writing about alleged sex play there, she got angry and hoped to shore up his account in a book...