Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...body I have little to say," he notes; later, faced with a ghastly consequence of his behavior, he responds, "I will not speak of this." The understatement works wonders. This disastrous affair comes trailing some of the cliches of romantic fiction: kinky sex, a wineglass snapped between clenched fingers. But Damage, through its fastidious language, restores these tired old tropes to the realm of flesh and blood...
Jazz life on dream street: days of drizzly twilight, long spiky nights of taking a nick off Nirvana with a piano run or a horn solo, walking arm in arm into a rainy dawn with your next sad love affair. Meanwhile, real life on ! Lawrence Street: a two-story frame house in a working-class neighborhood of Washington. The den extension and the enlarged kitchen were not built by the man of the house, Shep Deering, but by his wife, who is handy with a hammer and saw. Her husband of 35 years still works as a mechanic...
...support has fallen so precipitously that half of California voters polled believe he should resign now. Bolstered by their national-hero status, former astronaut Glenn and former POW McCain, the group's lone Republican, have recovered from the beating they took in the polls right after the Keating affair became public. DeConcini and Riegle have not been so lucky. Polls show that if they were up for re-election today, any challenger with a pulse could beat them...
...when Jacinda T. Townsend '92 taped a black swastika to her Cabot House window in response to the whole affair, she upped the ante touching a raw nerve, particularly in the Jewish community. Almost too coincidentally, the controversial flags were hung just as parents of juniors were arriving for a weekend of University-sponsored activities...
...Expressionism. Everything came from German museums, since the idea was to show how the official public culture of Germany had been infiltrated by Modernism. At the end of the show, whatever seemed salable was auctioned by the Fischer Gallery in Switzerland. Minor or unsalable works were destroyed. The whole affair was an elaborate purification rite, art's equivalent to book burning...