Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...morality play under way in room 1306 of the old white marble federal courthouse in New York City is a three-hankie affair. On the prosecution side is Bill Cosby, battling an attack on his reputation as America's Dearest Dad. At the defense table sits Autumn Jackson, 22, the woman who is charged with trying to extort $40 million from Cosby in exchange for not publicizing a story that could brand Cosby Deadbeat Daddy Dearest. The tug of sympathies is palpable. Does one side with Cosby, a man who has achieved heroic stature since the tragic shooting...
...nonchalant as I read as much of the front page as I can before the old lady in front of me finishes paying for her Metamucil and prune juice. Inevitably, I move forward embarrassed for having been pulled in, dying to know if Princess Di really is having an affair with her ex-husband's butler. Even as I mock the papers whose lead stories deal with aliens almost as often as they write about us human types, I am aware of the effect of their conspiratorial, scandal-seeking message on my own assumptions and world views. Although I laugh...
...actor who played a police chief, a President and just about every other authority but God; by shooting himself, ending his struggle with cancer; in Malibu, Calif. Audiences preferred Keith as a father figure: he was the dad in The Parent Trap and a guardian in TV's Family Affair...
...Force command in Fort Worth, Texas, where the debris had been sent for further analysis, announced that what had really been recovered was a weather balloon. This is the indisputable core of the Roswell Incident. Whether one chooses to believe that the government has been covering up an affair involving extraterrestrials is, of course, a more subjective matter. But because Roswell represents the only time the U.S. military has gone on record saying that flying saucers exist, it has become a cornerstone of belief for the UFO community. They are, by the way, quite a diverse and fractious group...
...Muro affair is a reminder that the harmony between the U.S. and Japan is still fragile. U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky certainly won't bother pushing Japan to take in American umpires the way Washington once demanded the country import more Louisville Slugger bats. But Japan's trade surplus with the U.S. is once again rising at an alarming rate. At this weekend's Denver summit of the Group of Seven leading industrial nations, the U.S. will push Japan to open its economy further. "Japan's bureaucrats talk all the time about how they have an open market and believe...