Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...love letters in the possession of Morton Fullerton, a charming rotter who alternately pursued and ignored her. She was also, and none too subtly, trying to make her unpredictable suitor do something -- anything. But Fullerton did not send back his married lover's mail, then or later, after the affair had finally sputtered out. In 1980 some 300 of these "inanimate things" turned up for sale and were bought by the University of Texas at Austin. Most of those included in The Letters of Edith Wharton appear in print for the first time...
...reasonably complete answer will have to wait several weeks until experts finish analyzing tapes from the Vincennes and other U.S. Navy vessels in the gulf. And some questions about the affair may never be resolved. Why, for example, did the Airbus pilot not answer the warnings issued in the last minutes before the shootdown? But enough has become known in the week since the tragedy to suggest a terrible conclusion, one with dismaying implications for a nuclear-armed world: the U.S., and by extension other countries using high-tech weapons, may have become prisoners of a technology so speedy...
...interaction between life (non-fiction) and art (fiction) fascinated and troubled Chekhov as much as Carver. Chekhov's lover, Lydia Avilov, recorded in her memoirs that Chekhov's story, "About Love," was material stolen from their furtive affair. Ms. Avilov reproached Chekhov for his theft: "The colder the writer, the more sensitive and moving his story. Let the reader weep over it. That's what...
...first, the incident seemed like another deadly confrontation in the Persian Gulf between the armed forces of the U.S. and Iran. But the affair quickly developed into something far worse. On Sunday morning the Navy cruiser U.S.S. Vincennes, while battling several Iranian speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz, mistakenly shot down an Iranian commercial airliner. Iran said the Airbus A300 "exploded in the sky," killing all 298 people on board. Officers on the Vincennes had believed the aircraft was an Iranian F-14 fighter jet that was attacking the U.S. ship. The tragedy immediately invited comparison with the 1983 downing...
...unanswered for long. In what amounted to a public airing of a long-simmering Kremlin feud, Ligachev urged the conference to deny Yeltsin rehabilitation because he had failed to renounce his "doubtful and uncomradely methods." Gorbachev sought to put the matter to rest, saying everyone involved in the Yeltsin affair had "learned a lesson...