Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Missing from the letter is mention of the Faculty's sharp criticisms of the Central Administration over benefits reductions. Gone is any mention of the media circuses that surrounded the Gina Grant affair, the murder-suicide in Dunster House, or even the president's own leave for exhaustion...
...Horse Whisperer, a romantic yarn in which a Montana cowboy with a mystical gift for communicating with horses has a torrid affair with a British-born magazine editor from New York, caused a stir in publishing and Hollywood circles as soon as the manuscript began circulating last fall. Robert Redford and Disney ponied up $3 million for movie rights; Dell Publishing won North American book rights for $3.15 million; and foreign rights topped $2 million. And that was before Evans had even finished writing the book...
...martini into anyone's face. Courtly but gossipy, chummy but not overfamiliar, he proudly points out all the notables he has managed to attract to his soirae. Yet, while there is a good deal of pleasurable ogling to be had, Vidal's book is the sort of grand, teeming affair that leaves you feeling vaguely unsatisfied, as though you are not quite sure why he invited you in the first place...
Curiously, for a man who prides himself on his unsentimentality, Vidal shades his entire story with the romantic memory of a love affair he had with a classmate at St. Albans. He suggests that blond, sunny, athletic Jimmie Trimble, who died in a foxhole in Iwo Jima, was his Rosebud, his one and only, his Platonic other half. As tender as he is about Trimble, so is he icy about the rest of his romantic attachments (he matter-of-factly states that he'd had 1,000 sexual liaisons by the time he was 25), as well as about most...
...natured Allen Ginsberg, a self-absorbed Anais Nin, a pathologically untruthful Truman Capote, an endearing Tennessee Williams (who, during lunch with Senator John Kennedy in Palm Beach, Florida, tells Vidal that their host has a great butt), and a rather mawkish Jack Kerouac, with whom Vidal has a brief affair. (No man is a hero to his Vidal--and every man, the author insinuates, harbors homoeroticism within...