Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...public space, grabbing a few hostages and seeing if the resulting police and media attention will ease the throbbing in his temples. Larry rides his motorcycle through the plate-glass window of Turgeon Auto, in grungy Queens, N.Y., where Joey works. He is looking for whoever is having an affair with his wife Donna (Annabella Sciorra), a secretary at the dealership...
...number of Harvard's residential houses, selling t-shirts portraying television's Simpson family should have been a simple affair. But like Bart, the family's precocious prepubescent son, one house just couldn't stay out of trouble...
...going to deal, and we are not going to negotiate." The Administration believes any accommodation of the demands for reciprocity would only raise the ante for the release of the others. Bush is particularly sensitive about offering any payoff because he was nearly burned by the Iran-contra affair. He was not even willing to send Assistant Secretary of State John Kelly to Damascus to arrange Polhill's release for fear Kelly might be drawn into negotiating with the kidnapers...
Dismay over Israel's provocative settlement policies and intransigence toward the Palestinians is not the only cause of the unprecedented wave of criticism. Division and anxiety are also increasing over Israel's military ties to South Africa and the venturesome foreign policy that led to the Iran- contra affair and the Pollard spy case. There is outright disgust with the vulnerability of Israel's political system to the demands of fanatical ultra- Orthodox sects, as demonstrated last month by the ability of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, an 88-year-old Brooklyn rabbi, to derail the Labor Party's attempt to form...
...Family Affair, We'll Settle It for Ourselves, May 4-6 and 10-12 at the Agassiz Thatre. A Russian satire of an alienating world, directed by Tim Banker...