Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...played by Gish) happily remembers her past, but she does not live in it. Her sister Libby (Davis), on the other hand, whom age has blinded, is bitter about the tricks life has played on her. She expected her marriage to be like the mating of swans--a lifelong affair--but life fooled her. "She was always a difficult woman, even under the best of circumstances," one character tells Sarah during the film, and now that she has grown old, Libby has become "intolerable...
...became the anthem of the decadent fin-de-siecle 1890s. This book was, as Ellmann notes, a "tragedy of aestheticism," a cautionary tale about the perils of unbridled hedonism. But the prose was so alluring that few noticed the message. Wilde ignored it too. Involved in a love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, third son of the ninth Marquess of Queensberry, he actively succumbed to a course of conduct that would destroy...
Ellmann's account of this lamentable affair is candid and sympathetic. "Bosie" Douglas, 16 years Wilde's junior, had a taste for casual, commercial sex and induced Wilde to follow this lead. The older man was the innocent: "What seems to characterize all Wilde's affairs is that he got to know the boys as individuals, treated them handsomely, allowed them to refuse his attentions without becoming rancorous, and did not corrupt them. They were already prostitutes." That Wilde was careless, selfish and inconsiderate toward his faithful wife and his children is beyond dispute. But he did not deserve being...
...latest of 15 people accused in the long-running affair are E. Robert Wallach, a Meese friend of 30 years and former personal lawyer who became a highly paid Wedtech lobbyist; W. Franklyn Chinn, a former Wedtech director who handled investments profitably for Meese in a "blind partnership" trust; and Rusty Kent London, a professional gambler and past financial consultant to Wedtech. The indictments contend that Wallach received a check for $300,000 from Wedtech in 1984, claiming falsely that the payment was for past legal advice to the company. "In fact," contended Giuliani, "the money was for future services...
Meese's possible involvement in the Wedtech affair is still being probed by Independent Counsel James McKay, who issued an interim report last week that fell short of fully clearing him. He said there was "insufficient evidence as of this date" to accuse the Attorney General of having "knowingly participated" in any crime. But, he added, "this is an interim, and not a final, determination." Referring to Meese, McKay explained that he eventually hopes to pursue a "number of unresolved questions on his involvement with Wedtech Corp. and other matters...