Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Steyn said the Dean of Students office could have handled the affair better because the tone of the letter sent by Epps and Flatley was "insulting...
According to Eliot Resident Tutor Richard F. Boulware '90-'93, who has agreed to be an adviser and participant, the show will be a full blown Adams-style affair...
...time he turned pro last week, he had set a ton of records in amateur golf. Two weekends ago he won his third straight U.S. amateur title, a feat never before accomplished, and he did it dramatically. The final was a 36-hole, match-play affair--meaning the golfers played to win each hole against a single opponent rather than accumulate the lowest score for the total field. As he began the last 18 holes, Woods was down five holes to his even younger opponent, Steve Scott, 19, from the University of Florida. With three holes remaining, he was still...
...involved in Dallas"--and who now, at 74, is on the verge of big payday, delivering and selling a planeload of unspecified merchandise somewhere in the Caribbean. It is 1984, after all, and the region is abuzz with preparations for what would later be described as the Iran-contra affair. Unfortunately, her father falls ill, and Elena agrees to accompany the plane on its mission and pick up the million dollars he expects to receive...
...middle: a fable of courtship in seven Paris parks in a two-month span. He, the lit student, professes his ardor with erudite intensity; she, the math student, is a seductive tease. She won't go to his apartment because it "lacks poetry," yet she proposes a two-day affair in which they'll play tourists in their own town. Rohmer adds a sour twist, but the enveloping mood is genial, the body language eloquent, the two players (Serge Renko, Aurore Rauscher) expert entrancers. One wants to bottle this episode; it's the perfect little gift for lovers of film...