Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...marriage, rumors of adultery...but wait. This heir is Crown Prince MAHA VAJIRALONGKORN of Thailand. Concern about his temperament rose recently when an official document was posted outside his palace alleging that his second wife, whom he married two years ago (although they have five children), was having an affair with an air force officer who worked for the royal family. The document bars the alleged adulterers from the palace, adding, "Should they be seen, the public is requested to chase them away...
...outdone, the Democrats' fund-raising gala last month was a two-day affair that raised $12.3 million, the biggest haul in Democratic Party history. It started with intimate dinners with top Clinton appointees at the homes of such luminaries as Ethel Kennedy and Vice President Al Gore. Those who gave $5,000 or more received a briefing by Clinton Cabinet officers, while the largest moneybags (those in the $250,000 category) got the best seats at the black-tie dinner on the second night...
...talk about anything but politics. While taking a stroll along Michigan Avenue in Chicago, killing time before a fund raiser for Illinois senatorial candidate Dick Durbin, Kerrey provides a magical mystery tour of his mind: he mentions how much he relishes mathematical constants ("I have a love affair with figures that stay constant, like gravity. Don't legislate against gravity"); from there he skips to drug addiction ("Let's get the drug companies to do something about it--they know a lot about addiction. They call it product loyalty"); to how bad the last scene of the movie...
...clothes off--but his character Jake is an archetype for the men in all these series. He appears in the beginning of each episode to read letters from women who have written to recount erotic tales; years ago, you see, Jake's fiance killed herself after a torturous affair with another man, leaving Jake with no choice but to spend the rest of his life soliciting dirty letters in an effort to unravel the female mind. The stories contained in his correspondence form the plot of each show. Many of them feature men, like Jake, who are wounded souls, victims...
...with such topics as abortion, capital punishment and sexual identity on past albums. On Dilate she mostly focuses on a single subject: a traumatic romance she's been involved in for about a year. The songs are sardonic, self-flagellating and self-referential; she tears into herself for the affair and then beats herself up for singing about it. "Every pop song on the radio," she croons sarcastically, "Is suddenly speaking to me." Listening to melodramatic love songs is often a guilty pleasure; DiFranco unburdens her listeners of that guilt by taking it on herself...