Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spencer's marriage was troubled from the beginning. Sixteen months after the wedding, Spencer confessed to London's Daily Mail that he had had an affair with Tatler magazine cartoonist Sally Ann Lasson in Paris, "a second one-night stand, four years after the first." The move was intended as a pre-emptive strike against plans by News of the World to tell Lasson's account of the couple's trysts. In the midst of all this, Lockwood was battling anorexia, a condition, it appears, Spencer did not always deal with sensitively. In a widely reported incident, Spencer apparently told...
...students at the Winthrop party complained that an officer swore at them while ending the affair...
...enemies of the Catholic order ended up in a corner of the Nirmal Hriday, tended by Mother Teresa herself. When the priest died, she delivered his body to the temple for Hindu rites. News of this charity filtered out into the city, and Calcutta started its long love affair with the humble sisters...
...lengths behind another recent secret groom, LARRY KING, who got married for the seventh time in a private ceremony last week, three days before he was scheduled to undergo angioplasty to clear a blocked blood vessel. The wedding, which was originally to be a gala, star-studded affair, was held a day early because of the operation. On this occasion the happy bride was SHAWN SOUTHWICK, herself a veteran of two prior unions...
Nonetheless, it would be hard to build a full-scale biography from Burning the Days. When and why, for example, did Salter decide to change his family name? (He was born James Horowitz.) Salter tells us that a captain's wife with whom he had a doomed, adulterous affair in Hawaii "put her mark on me" in a subtle, feminine way by choosing the girl he would wed. But what was the girl's name, and how did that marriage dissolve? In the preface to his memoir, Salter raises, but then brushes aside, the possibility that what one chooses...