Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WHAT KIND OF STARTED OUT AS A LOVE AFFAIR quite frankly now is feeling more like a date rape," said Jay Hair of the National Wildlife Federation. The environmental honeymoon ended Tuesday when Clinton accommodated several Western Senators key to the passage of his budget package; he deleted provisions raising the minimal rates farmers and miners pay to use federal lands. Environmentalists see the discounts as a guarantee of despoilment and Clinton's act as political cowardice. They were still nervous days later when he chaired a Portland, Oregon, "forest conference" on logging and the spotted owl, topics viewed...
Woody's claim to custody of five-year-old Satchel, their biological son, as well as their adopted daughter Dylan, 7, and son Moses, 15, was shadowed by his admitted affair with Soon-Yi Farrow Previn, now 22, adopted daughter of Mia and her second husband, composer Andre Previn. While acknowledging at last that "perhaps this was wrong, not wise," Allen still professed some bewilderment at the furor this liaison has caused. "At the very outset," he testified, "it didn't occur to me that this would be anything but a private thing." And the Polaroid photographs he took...
Fisher, 18, is now in jail in connection with the shooting of Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of an older man with whom Fisher supposedly had an affair while she was a high school student. Her case drew national attention from tabloids and inspired three made-for-TV movies...
...from some conservative pulpits since his election. The Rev. D. James Kennedy, pastor of the 8,000-member Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, whose religious broadcast is carried on 360 television stations nationwide, earlier this year cited a tabloid account of Clinton's alleged affair with former Arkansas cabaret singer Gennifer Flowers as an indication of the President's moral delinquency. "If his wife cannot rely upon him to keep his vows of fidelity to her in marriage," Kennedy said in an interview, "then why should the country be expected to believe that he would keep...
N.C.A.A. fever is only one sign of a deep national love affair...