Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard hosted a conference on the future of gay studies? While anonymous provocateurs were plastering the campus with lewd depictions of gay sex, members of AALARM were busy launching a pro-family counteroffensive with those rarely seen but still infamous blue square pins. The combined nonsense of the whole affair was enough to prompt the formation of SEXS (Students Exasperated by eXcessive Symbolism...
Solicitation has been transformed from a piecemeal, haphazard affair into a highly centralized, professional operation confident enough to set campaign goals ($2 to $3 billion)unimaginable just 10 years...
...French reaction "trivializes the whole issue of violence against women." French author Marguerite Duras, asked about Depardieu's remarks, said dismissively, "When I was 8 1/2, I stole an apple from the garden." Depardieu, meanwhile, was on the island of Mauritius shooting a new film and contemplating whether the affair will blow over or permanently tarnish his image with American audiences...
...Iraqi Shi'ite walks up to you in the Yard and asks how you feel about the Gulf War. Once reminded of what he is talking about, you look back at the events of the winter of 1991 and begin to sense a growing uneasiness about the whole damn affair...
...narrator has no such trauma in his past. In fact, he has never confronted any kind of adversity--he is emotionless, and Anna is the only thing that can make him feel alive. Unfortunately, these reasons never seem to convince the reader of the two characters' need for the affair nor of their passion...