Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just hours after the resignation, Berlusconi's brother, Paolo, was convicted of violating political funding laws -- along with 25 other businessmen who illegally gave money to a corrupt political faction. The bribery affair has been linked to Berlusconi's companies (which employ Paolo), but not to the owner himself, who accused police of extorting money instead...
...months as Surgeon General, Dr. Joycelyn Elders urged the government to study legalizing drugs, backed the distribution of contraceptives in schools and counseled abortion foes to get over their "love affair" with the fetus. Bill Clinton stood by her throughout, suggesting that his old Arkansas friend was misunderstood...
Clever Michael Crichton understood all that when he wrote his best seller Disclosure. That's why he made the aggressor a female executive, her victim a happily married man who has been passed over for her job -- and with whom, a decade earlier, she had a hot affair. The role reversal alone gives the story some curiosity value. It may even be, as people connected with the movie version keep insisting in interviews, that the shoe-on-the-other-foot approach to this situation will Make You Think...
Stations: An Imaginary Journey by Michael Flanagan (Pantheon; $21). The artist-author carries us back to Old Virginny with a dual-media performance: 38 paintings of bygone railroads and Shenandoah Valley townscapes juxtaposed with a 50-page story about the love affair between Anna, an enigmatic artist, and Russell, a photographer and train buff. The meticulous paintings depict Russell's old photographs, complete with creases and torn edges. The text is the reminiscence of an apocryphal ex-newspaperman whose attempt to reconstruct a forgotten romance resurrects family secrets and American history. This is an original example of Proust's observation...
...Texan (Lyle Lovett). A photographer (Stephen Rea) toys with three magazine editors (Linda Hunt, Sally Kellerman, Tracey Ullman). Two reporters (Tim Robbins and Julia Roberts in a nice little sketch) cover the story from their hotel bedroom. Two handsome Italians (Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni) replay an old love affair. And a FAD-TV reporter (Kim Basinger) chirpily reports every outrage on the runways and in the salons...