Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emptive regret for what a Vanity Fair reporter might have found in some 200 interviews. Burton suddenly remembered he had been separated from his wife three times. The next day his memory was jogged again when he learned that an Indianapolis paper would report that he had had an affair and fathered an illegitimate child. He wouldn't say more because of "everybody's heart being ripped out" and because "enough is enough." Sound familiar...
...Kenneth Starr, Bill Clinton thinks all he has to do is bite his lower lip, confess and tell Americans it's time to move on [SPECIAL REPORT, Aug. 31]. We simply cannot abide by a standard that says it is O.K. for a President to engage in an extramarital affair inside the White House with a 21-year-old intern, lie under oath and then engage in sidetracking the inquiry seeking to uncover his wrongdoing. We cannot, as a nation, afford to remain indifferent and silent regarding this man's conduct. DOUGLAS G. VETTER New York City...
...would have us believe. Time changes people, but it does not change them immediately or completely. The President says he made a mistake with Monica S. Lewinsky, but that we should now move forward. Perhaps tomorrow will bring a new Bill Clinton, one who won't have an affair with a 21-year-old intern on the country's time, in the country's house, and one who doesn't lie to the electorate. Perhaps yesterday really is gone. I hope so, but I don't believe it. Here...
...nation's largest black denominations, admitted Monday to an "improper relationship" with a coworker -- and he too wants forgiveness. But like Clinton, he's not out of the doghouse quite yet. The board of the National Baptist Convention says it is willing to forgive Lyons his extramarital affair, but his pending indictments for fraud, money laundering and tax evasion are another matter -- especially if they lead to a conviction...
...real and true." Maybe this is it. But where Salinger, or many a better writer, would have fictionalized his truths, opening up new universes for the reader, Maynard sheds no light on anything beyond the little spotlight she is standing in. She had a complicated childhood, a shattering love affair, a complicated adulthood. Join the club, kiddo, as Salinger himself might...