Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thursday before the wedding, Gillette told Wise to "pick up the blood-test lady"--Alice Hughes, a lab assistant--and drive to the St. Marys airport. Wise said she found the clandestine nature of the affair a bit frightening. "I'm not a person who takes risks," she said. Arriving at the airport, they met David Sayre, Janet Ferguson's husband, and he took them to a four-seater plane on the runway. They climbed in and were introduced to Carolyn Bessette, a name that didn't mean anything to Wise and Hughes. Wise began asking questions. She finally realized...
...took on the British justice system in Murmuring Judges, postwar disillusion in Plenty, the church in Racing Demon. Skylight is a more modest piece, essentially a two-character drama about a wealthy restaurateur who arrives at the bleak little flat of his former mistress and tries to rekindle their affair. First we learn, rather tediously, the background of their relationship: they met when she went to work at one of his restaurants; she left him three years ago; his wife has since died of cancer. Then, after some getting-reacquainted sex, the fissures reappear. He complains dismissively about her freezing...
...different? Indeed one major answer lies in the social vehicles of the schools--Greek life in southern universities often dominates the college social atmosphere and football games become ritualistic social functions for fraternities and sororities. The success of their team has little or no effect on this weekly affair...
Last weekend, the Harvard women's volleyball team faced off against Colgate and Holy Cross. They came out of the round-robin affair with a win and a loss, against Holy Cross and Colgate respectively...
...long, strange trip, with Simon's gaffe epitomizing the entire affair: The music was decent, but the musicians and their musical selections just didn't make much sense...