Word: affair
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Brooding over a romance gone awry, Thomas Geoghegan wanted to get away from it all. Joining the French Foreign Legion was out, but a roommate talked him into volunteering as an observer at a dissident Mine Workers election. That was in 1972, and the beginning of Geoghegan's love affair with a "dumb, stupid, mastodon of a thing," a creature that shambles around "with half its brain gone." The object of his passion: organized labor...
...persuading the U.S. and other countries to drop their sanctions against South Africa, De Klerk must try to get the A.N.C. and other black groups to the negotiating table to write a new constitution that would extend voting rights to the black majority. "Inkathagate," as the press dubbed the affair, may delay the start of an all-party conference, originally planned as early as September, where the major political groups will decide how to structure negotiations. Use of secret funds by Pretoria also raised suspicions that it was employing below- the-belt tactics to weaken the A.N.C., widely considered...
...Bellinger, the publisher, is the man who organized the 1985 blockade of the Mississippi River to free a Ukrainian sailor who had twice tried to defect to the U.S. by jumping ship. Alas, Bellinger's nautical skills far outstrip his editorial talents: Between the Lines is a disappointingly bland affair that lacks the right-wing vitriol of Accuracy in Media or the brass and savvy of the publications put out by the Media Research Center. A recent issue featured the entire text of a George Bush speech that the national media had unforgivably failed to reprint verbatim...
...Iran-contra affair may be only part of a broader and previously undisclosed pattern of illegal activities by intelligence agencies during the tenure of Ronald Reagan and his CIA chief William Casey. Sources close to the unfolding investigation of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International told TIME that U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, maintained secret accounts with the globe-girdling financial empire, which has been accused of laundering billions of dollars in drug money, financing illegal arms deals and engaging in other crimes...
...fashioned movie Manhattan that is a beautiful place to be lost in. Nichols, as always, is terrific at suggesting worlds without words. The camera catches a glance from a pretty lawyer at Henry's firm, and we know in that instant that she has had an affair with the old, nasty Henry. But then the script insists that these epiphanies be spelled out in illuminated capital letters; and Nichols, a jaunty yachtsman of a director, must trawl through treacle. Strings swell at the merest emotion. And -- lordy! -- dog-reaction shots! By the end, when the pooch trots into a school...