Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there's no immediate pattern of selling. Shouldn't the lower rate pave the way for another bull stampede by encouraging more investment? Not necessarily. Unlike the previous two reductions, this one comes amid a sizzling love affair with the market. There is no need to rekindle our passion for stocks; we're hopelessly obsessed. "This market needed a stimulus like Einstein needed a higher education," notes Tom McManus, strategist at NatWest Securities...
...then, as a parade of witnesses testified, along came Lynne Cox, freshly divorced and newly reborn in makeup and contacts and short skirts. She was soon spending more time alone and on the road with her boss, and admits to having an affair with him. Thus were laid out the preconditions for an "alienation of affection" suit, a rare legal recourse for spurned spouses that only a handful of states still recognizes...
...Hutelmyer herself--she married Joseph this year--says the jury merely chose to ignore her side of the story. She has never denied that she and Joseph had an affair; but the idea that he had been happily married before she came along is "ludicrous and absurd... The two of them had not had any physical relationship in over seven years. If my husband had not made love to me in seven years, I would think there was a problem...
...mimicking the play's dialogue ("What do you feel like doin' tonight?" "I don't know. What do you feel like doin' tonight?"). The film version won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1955, and Hollywood was soon combing Philco Playhouse for other scripts: The Bachelor Party, The Catered Affair, The Rainmaker and Gore Vidal's The Death of Billy the Kid (filmed as The Left-Handed Gun) and Visit to a Small Planet...
...wouldn't be complete without a shot at Camelot. Days after John F. Kennedy Jr. launched a mini family feud, questioning the morality of his cousins in an article sure to boost sales of his magazine, George, a Swedish aristocrat tells ABC's "20/20" she had a six-year affair with John Sr., starting just weeks before he married Jacqueline Bouvier...