Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...action was classic Bennett. The lawyer likes to combine shrewd use of the media with concern for his client's state of mind. Says Weinberger, who was indicted (and pardoned) for his role in the Iran-contra affair: "Bob is crucial because of the terrorist approach of prosecutors. They hope the person they target will fold up, blow away and plead guilty...
Feelings are what Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Clinton's nominee for Surgeon General, stands accused of hurting with her controversial remarks about antiabortion activists (they have a "love affair with the fetus," and so on). Elders is, as TIME put it, "a verbal bomb thrower." The sensitivities of Roman Catholics and Fundamentalist Protestants were said to have been offended by her tart tongue. No doubt she wishes that she had bitten her tongue on an occasion or two. If that is not promotion of a stifling orthodoxy, what...
...effort to find Marchenko, the true beast, it would seem, of Treblinka. Marchenko, who was born in 1911, could well be dead. If he is still alive and free, living comfortably in Croatia or Argentina or some American suburb, that would be the greatest travesty of the Demjanjuk affair...
...Beast, has now unveiled a touring stage revue of songs from its animated movies. The show opened a two-week run last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, no less, and will go on to play 17 amphitheaters, arts centers and state fairs through Aug. 22. A lavish affair, it is performed by a symphony orchestra, a 30-member chorus, and 44 players who impersonate more than 200 Disney characters. Alas, the title -- Disney's Symphonic Fantasy -- is only two-thirds accurate...
...child who will more than likely grow up uncared for. She has not taken her lumps quietly. Elders attacks her religious-right critics as "non-Christians" who harbor "slave-master mentalities." Last year Elders told an abortion-rights rally that abortion foes need to get over their "love affair with the fetus." Earlier this month on a CNBC call-in show, Elders was asked what she planned to do about crack- addicted women who sell sex to buy drugs, get pregnant and have crack- addicted babies. "That's a real problem," the pragmatic Elders replied. "I would hope that...