Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ubiquitous sex talk. If it's not born-again transsexuals with psoriasis on Oprah and Phil or the latest investigative expose of swimsuits on A Current Affair, it's the R-rated dishing and dissing on Studs, the syndicated hit that is to the old Dating Game what Sodom was to Sparta. Call them all dirtysomething...
...ubiquitous sex talk. If it's not born-again transsexuals with psoriasis on Oprah and Phil or the latest investigative expose of swimsuits on A Current Affair, it's the R-rated dishing and dissing on Studs, the syndicated hit that is to the old Dating Game what Sodom was to Sparta. Call them all dirtysomething...
Others quickly follow. Mack's discreet little affair with his secretary (Mary-Louise Parker) threatens to become indiscreet. His best friend, a heedless movie producer (Steve Martin), is permanently crippled in a mugging. His wife Claire (the luminous Mary McDonnell) discovers an abandoned baby on her morning run and, afflicted by empty-nest malaise (their son is growing up), begins a campaign to adopt the foundling. An earthquake thunders through town, a neighbor dies suddenly, and overhead the police helicopters endlessly circle, their probing searchlights constant reminders of disorder and imminent sorrow...
With all this trouble, can a love affair -- healing for him, liberating for her -- be far behind? Unfortunately, the look that Streisand imparts to this passage -- that of a commercial for a feminine-hygiene product -- is a deal breaker, the moment at which at least some portion of the audience is likely to realize that their eager-to-please saleslady has been soft-soaping a hard sell all along. By slamming several minor domestic dramas together in one handsomely presented package, Tides achieves the length and weight of an epic. But it is a false epic, a grandiose delusion compounded...
...covert state, the invisible government that operates in this country and seems to be an unelected parallel government to our legitimate government. The CIA and military intelligence all got out of hand somewhere in the 1960s. It suddenly reached another level, where the concept of assassination -- the wet affair, liquidation -- became the vogue...