Word: affair
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Claims of media bias persist regardless of the outcome of any particular election. One has to ask which of the media: the Philadelphia Inquirer or the National Enquirer, the Wall Street Journal or the New Republic, Nightline or A Current Affair? And on which issues? Few people fall at exactly the same place in the left-right spectrum on everything from economics, the environment and foreign policy to such social issues as gay rights and abortion. On many economic and environmental matters -- and even, to a lesser degree, on the social issues around which the Republicans focused their convention...
...explain. Life in my home town of Manchester, England, is a simple affair. The conversational staples are weather forecasts and family suffering ("Oh, you know our Terry. His leg's dropping off. It's great pity"), while the libido can only be coaxed into action after a drunken rout. As recession engulfs the city, the poor inhabitants will be so busy watching TV and eating white bread and fat all day, they may even forget they have bodies...
...play shows every side of Evita, the innocence, her fame and her infamy. The faltering direction of Evita's life becomes intimately tied to the decline of an Argentina blinded by idolworship of this actress/politician, a scenario frighteningly similar to America's love affair with Ronald Reagan...
Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has won a big one in the legal wrangles leading toward his trial in connection with the Iran-contra affair. Federal Judge Thomas Hogan in Washington dismissed a critical count charging Weinberger with obstruction of Congress in concealing the existence of more than 1,700 pages of handwritten notes taken during key meetings in 1985 and 1986. Weinberger still faces counts of lying to Congress about Saudi financial support for the contras and delivery of U.S. missiles to Iran...
Consider, for example, a presidential race in which the leading candidate tap-dances and croons torch songs, carries on a tabloid affair with a beauty- pageant entrant and has a running mate who is a national joke when he's not a faceless nonentity. This party's winning agenda consists of one word: love. Americans are urged to vote their belief in romance, and overwhelmingly they fall...