Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jump in a puddle and do that too. Greenspan is the powerful chairman of the Federal Reserve, the nation's central bank, but until recently he was looking like the Rodney Dangerfield of the bull market. Three times in three months he implored investors to rethink their love affair with stocks, starting with his "irrational exuberance" speech in December. Yet stock prices danced defiantly higher atop torrents of cash flowing into mutual funds...
...Applewhite's sister Louise Winant maintains that her brother entered a Houston hospital with a heart blockage and had a near-death experience that changed his life. The Washington Post reported that in 1971 he checked into a psychiatric hospital to be cured of his homosexuality after an affair with a student at Houston's University of St. Thomas led to his being fired as a music professor. (He had been fired from another job for similar reasons in 1964.) He reportedly confided to a lover that he longed for sexless devotion, passion without physical entanglements. Whatever the facts, Applewhite...
...Crawford and recently had to dodge rumors of a tryst with his Saint co-star, Elisabeth Shue. Noyce says that was just Val the perfectionist, obsessed with highlighting the film's romantic glow. "He worked so minutely on this relationship that some crew members said they were having an affair," says Noyce. "I don't believe that was true, but they spent a lot of time in the caravan together, and it was all about trying to be free with each other...
...lives poor with his much nicer younger brother Doug (Joaquin Phoenix) and his widowed mother (Kathy Baker) and fixates on the wealthy Abbotts. He's convinced that Lloyd (Will Patton), the paterfamilias, got rich by stealing an invention from Jacey's late father and then had a ruinous affair with his mom. In repayment, Jacey will therefore seduce Eleanor (Jennifer Connelly), the least stable of the three Abbott daughters. And then her older sister Alice (Joanna Going), and finally her younger one (Liv Tyler), who happens to be his brother's beloved. The kid is to middle-class propriety what...
...here's the thing--Pinsky does have something to say. Something to say about America, and he says it well. His 1979 collection, "An Explanation of America," is, believe it or not, actually moving. There is a ton in the book. It's a long-weekend affair; the book needs time to sit for a while. Pinsky divides the book into three parts, each part an aspect of the American experience: "Its Many Fragments," "Its Great Emptiness," "Its Everlasting Possibility." This should give you some sense of the tone...