Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...record, he is back together with his second ex-wife, the actress Lauren Holly. Their divorce, and her rumored affair with actor-director Edward Burns, made Carrey tabloid fodder--fishbowl living being another level on which he can relate to Truman Burbank. "I got in a fender bender on Sunset, and before I knew it there were paparazzi, because someone used his cell phone and made 300 bucks." He worries about media snoops planting recording devices in his hotel rooms--"So then you can't masturbate"--and worse. "Am I going to be combing my beard some day," he wonders...
...adult teacher does not notice a student's talents in the second grade and have a love affair with him in the sixth grade. How can we talk rationally about such "reasons" for Letourneau's behavior as her husband's having a dead-end job or her father's dying of cancer or her having "bipolar disorder"? America is suffering from the Death of Common Sense. STEVEN M. WALK Great Neck...
Lance Morrow wrote a distorted romantic fantasy about how love thrives "when it breaks all the rules" [VIEWPOINT, May 4]. But Letourneau is not a Victorian heroine who pitched away her bourgeois life for a star-crossed affair with the man of her dreams. She is a deeply troubled woman caught between the pressures of a failed marriage and financial bankruptcy. And her lover is no man, but a child. We should not romanticize adults who use children as outlets for frustrations and needs. Whether the perpetrator is an attractive woman or a menacing 300-lb. biker, whether the victim...
...conclusion, whether your issue is grapes or capitalism or a crappy summer job. We've learned and forgotten a lot of stuff in four years. But finally, we've gleaned from our experiences with this Harvard achievement rat race one thing: the smartest people in the whole affair are the ones who remember to keep thinking...
Rosenbaum began to cultivate his power-wardrobe even before he hit campus. Like many eager applicants, he assembled his Harvard interview outfit carefully. While other candidates at the interviewing site showed up for the stressful affair in Polo shirts and shorts, Rosenbaum chose a suit...