Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black boxes through whose glass tops a puddle of mercury can be seen welling up and vanishing as the pump switches on and off. It is obviously meant as a metaphor for the circulation of fluids inside the human body, with lunar input. But it is a ponderous affair and mechanically unconvincing...
...treat marriage too lightly. A few decades back, we decided that marital bonds tied too tightly. In those days many had to travel to Mexico to obtain a divorce, or acquire residency in Nevada. Others had to make believe that one of the parties had engaged in a nefarious affair. We responded with no-fault divorce. A generation later, many feel that our society oversteered the other way, rendering marriages almost disposable...
...close, in this finely nuanced book. The biographer is as shrewd and sympathetic in sorting out Larkin's surprisingly energetic sex life as in parsing his poems. Larkin's longest attachment (38 years) was with Monica Jones, a lecturer at Leicester University. About halfway through this affair he took up with Maeve Brennan, a library staff member at Hull, and a few years later he added his secretary, Betty Mackereth. The point was to play one woman off against another, sometimes callously, to keep them all at a certain distance...
...also has the good sense to leave out any romantic complications. Yancy Butler plays Natasha Binder, a young woman whose search for her father leads to the discovery of the hunting game. Van Damme and Butler exchange some hugs and lots of slow motion looks but nothing more. An affair between the characters would be preposterous and it rightfully left alone...
...equivocal and despairing note discovered last week in Vincent W. Foster Jr.'s briefcase was as jarring as the tragedy of his suicide on July 20. The letter only cuts deeper into an affair roiled with questions...