Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best new museum building America has seen in years opened last week in San Francisco, amid relentless social fanfare: the city's much awaited-and badly needed-Museum of Modern Art. Since 1935, Bay Area art lovers have had to content themselves with the old SFMOMA, a makeshift affair housed in the Beaux Arts-style War Veterans' Memorial Building and so cramped that the permanent collection had to be taken down whenever a temporary show went up. In 1990 designs for a new building were made public. It would cost $60 million, all in private money, and the architect...
...appears to Felicia, who has never had to deal with the sorts of problems that overwhelm her now. What is an unmarried pregnant girl to do? Where is her Johnny, who told her he loved her? During his visit home to see his mother, when the affair occurred, he said something about working in sales at a lawn-mower factory near Birmingham, England, so that is where she goes. But no one can tell her where such a factory might be. And almost the first person she asks proves to be an unfortunate choice. Mr. Hilditch, a heavy, middle-aged...
...system and a sensationalist and racist media. He says he would "jump in front of a bullet" to protect his ex-wife. Much of the book alternates between letters received in jail and Simpson's responses. He portrays himself as a spiritual man and a victim in the whole affair, and accuses the press of being unfair to him. A TV trial, he says, poses special problems: "Having these TV cameras in the court all the time is a no-win situation for me. If I'm looking like I'm having a good day in court...
...sound bites and bland, superficial reporting. Neither the television nor the radio markets have given rise to high-quality news, and it is doubtful that the CPB shows will be able to survive for long if they have to compete with tasteless but popular trash such as A Current Affair or Hard Copy...
...spending earned Saatchi & Saatchi $9 million in profits last year. Other companies reconsidering their advertising deals include the candymaker Mars and the Mirror media group. In announcing that he too was thinking of closing his account, Stanley Kalms, head of the British electronics retail chain Dixons, called the Saatchi affair one of the "worst examples of corporate governance" he had ever seen...