Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rhythm of the Saints doesn't have an overall theme," he suggests. "It jumps around from subject to subject within the songs, slips from verse to verse. There are a lot of personal references: family, friends, some love- affair stuff. I know what all the lines mean in direct relationship to my life...
...rather disgusted with his speech. It washypocritical," Lai said. "It was typical Bushpolitical bullshit--wonderful words and absolutelyno action whatsoever. I was disgusted by theentire affair...
...another 19th century poet, Christabel LaMotte. (Neither Ash nor LaMotte existed, but Byatt creates excerpts from their imaginary poems and journals that bring them vibrantly alive.) Roland stumbles across a tantalizing fragment of evidence that the respectably married Ash and the spinster LaMotte may have had an illicit affair; such an event, if proved, would set the scholarly world on its ear. Before long, he and Maud join forces to track down the truth...
...must ask ourselves if the army is the most appropriate and most efficient agency to handle this affair...
Despite a poll that said 90% of Brazilians did not consider the affair sufficient reason for dismissal, President Fernando Collor de Mello was worried that the scandal might damage his administration's credibility. His sensitivity is understandable: three weeks ago, a woman from the state of Alagoas claimed that the President was the father of her 10-year-old son. Last month a candidate for governor in the state of Rio Grande do Sul was hurt by allegations from his former wife that he had deserted their three children. And in the state of Amazonas, gubernatorial candidate Gilberto Mestrinho...