Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Particularly wonderful is the all-too-brief treatment of the love affair between Gareth (Simon Callow of "A Room with a View") and Matthew (John Hannah in his screen debut). Hannah's reading of W.H. Auden's great love poem, "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" at Gareth's funeral is one of the most poignant moments ever captured on celluloid...
...must wonder what prevents our government from arbitrarily dropping into any simple e-mail conversation or personal file in the name of national security? But, of curse, we must not forget the high integrity of secure government agencies. (Like that shown by the Aldrich Ames affair, for example...
Harvard professors say the ongoing Whitewater controversy may tarnish the Clinton presidency, but it is nowhere near becoming a scandal the size of Watergate or the Iran-Contra affair...
...despite the Watergate-like presence of a prosecutor, a round of subpoenas and even the resignation of White House Counsel Bernard W. Nussbaum, the affair is a tempest in a teapot, professors...
...White House press conference the President lashed out at questions about the role of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the affair, saying, "I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life -- ever." As the first three of six subpoenaed White House officials appeared before a grand jury, Republican Senators appeared willing to let the investigation continue for several months before demanding public hearings...