Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Appel said he was outraged at the November 14th incident. But Coop president Jeremiah P. Murphy '72 said the guard correctly followed procedures and made no apologies about the affair...
...scion of a respectable family whom she did not love and produced two children. She walked out on that fledgling family to marry a Communist, Gottfried Lessing, with whom she had another child. Everyone drank, smoked and caroused. During her pregnancy by Lessing, she felt the need of an affair and nailed her man at once, a dedicated womanizer. By the end of the book she has moved to London with only the youngest child. (Though she saw Lessing when he too came to England, the relationship was over.) These facts are set out baldly and without apology. Like many...
...offbeat style of the film neatly mirrors the inner turmoils and ecstasies of Gould's life. Gould's career took off in the 1950s, and the camera captures the mad rise of his passionate affair with the piano. In an unearthly scene, Gould is pictured flowing through the music studio room, listening to his own recording and enraptured in his act of creation. He is in his own transcendent world. In all its obsessiveness, this charged erotic encounter vies with Hollywood's best...
...before he quit and revived an interest in the German language begun when he was a soldier in Europe. Paige is petulant and self-absorbed. She disapproves of his besotted love for their four-year-old daughter ("so working class") and grumps when he has a perfectly understandable affair with a pretty grad student...
...Margaret Mitchell's estate stipulated that a sequel to her 1936 novel not contain any explicit sex. The TV producers, spared this constraint, show Scarlett and Rhett disrobing each other frantically in a fisherman's hut. Moreover, the character of Lord Fenton (Sean Bean), with whom Scarlett has an affair, is given far more prominence than he enjoyed in the book. He is a secret rapist-murderer who beats Scarlett when she dismisses him. "I am not accustomed to sudden onsets of chastity!" he yells while groping and slapping...