Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Graduate" stars Dustin Hoffman as the young recent college graduate who has an affair with the older, seductive Mrs. Robinson played by Anne Bancroft. This is a brilliant coming-of-age comedy about the changes sex can have for a morally upstanding, soon-to-be-guided-into-the-corporate-world-by-his- father young man. Plastics are not where he wants to be. He'd rather be wrapped in the arms of his mother's best friend who seduces him during his mother's wake. Torn between two lovers, the other being Mrs. Robinson's daughter, Elaine, Hoffman's character...
...recovered from this rather quickly, as she did from all her relationships. At 39 she married her second husband, producer Leland Hayward. . Six months after his death in 1971, she moved on to the industrialist and diplomat Averell Harriman, with whom she had had an affair in her youth. It was as Mrs. Harriman that she became the Democratic Party's most celebrated fund raiser...
Housing Secretary HENRY CISNEROS is being sued by former mistress, Linda Medlar, who says he broke an "oral contract" to pay her $4,000 a month for damages following the exposure of their affair in 1990. Cisneros, who reconciled with his wife, denies a contract but admits giving Medlar "intermittent" $4,000 payments as well as $36,000 as a final settlement. The Secretary told TIME he leased a car for Medlar, gave her a $16,000 down payment on a house and paid her daughter's tennis-camp tuition. Medlar says she received no settlement, no car, no tuition...
Amid a flurry of partisan bickering, the House Banking Committee began its hearings into the Whitewater affair. A series of Administration figures offered the unsurprising testimony that they had not interfered with a government investigation of the failed S&L at the heart of the Whitewater matter. Republicans, hoping to sustain an air of scandal, charged that Administration actions nevertheless served as an example of "Me generation public ethics...
Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman told a Senate Banking panel that he had committed no legal or ethical violations during contacts with the White House over the Whitewater affair. He nonetheless apologized for potentially misleading testimony given at an earlier hearing. During intense grilling by committee members, Altman pointed out that three independent investigations had discovered no interference by Clinton Administration officials in the case of the failed Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. Earlier in the day, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen's chief of staff, Joshua Steiner, tried to dismiss the accuracy of entries in his diary, in which...