Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irony, however, is that the tournament is a throwback. A tradition-laden affair that all four captains remember watching as children with their fathers...
...movie audience's relationship with a favorite star is like a long-term, off-and-on affair. The star seduces us, he disappoints us; after years of the same-old, we take him for granted; then he does something wonderful to win back our love. Eddie Murphy, from his explosion on Saturday Night Live in 1981 to his current turn in the cop drama Metro, has been a beguiling, exasperating beau. With his horse laugh and his wizardry at impressions, he rose to eminence as the little guy who can take charge. But he became addicted to adulation and lost...
Clinton long ago said the era of Big Government is over; perhaps the same is true of big Inaugurals. But it may be that Clinton has learned something else: lowering expectations is a powerful way to set the stage for exceeding them. If the first Inaugural was a grandiose affair that presaged only modest achievements, perhaps only a modest beginning can prefigure something truly grand...
...opportunity to all in what he called a new era and a new land. Cannon fire punctuated the applause that followed as some 250,000 people withstood near-freezing temperatures on the Mall to witness this celebration of American self-government. Though this Inauguration was a smaller, less lavish affair than Clinton's Hollywood-style blowout in 1993, the crowd seemed jubilant, buoyed by the gospel choir, Jessye Norman's powerful rendition of "America the Beautiful," and the verse of Arkansas poet Miller Williams. During the day that is set aside every four years to celebrate Democracy's peaceful transition...
...this early rush was just an illusion, as the game quickly devolved into a slow-paced, penalty-ridden affair with neither team gaining much momentum...