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...whom privacy is in short supply. No big shock to readers of Manil Suri's new novel The Age of Shiva, then, to find hormonal Delhiites Meera Sawhney, 17, and hunky songster Dev Arora, not much older, on the floor of a Sufi mystic's decaying tomb in flagrante delicto. The only surprise comes for the two paramours, whose rendezvous has been espied by a nearby stationmaster's son. Word quickly reaches both their homes, which shudder with the news. "You may not realize this now," Meera's father scolds her, "but you've just ruined your life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Long Story | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...Have you guys heard about the time, right after Byron’s exile, that his Swiss hotelier burst in on him, like, in flagrante delicto with a chambermaid, because the hotelier was convinced that Byron was getting it on with his wife?” They have...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: What Would Byron Do? | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

...down liberals on subjects ranging from trigger locks (against them) to fur coats (for them). Before that, she wrote several books, not only about education and cultural relativism but also a novel featuring two women in love, and she co-wrote another about a Vice President who dies flagrante delicto. In a you-go-girl ending, his smart, cheated-upon wife takes his job. Briefly, Cheney toyed with running for the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Lynne Cheney Keeps Her Voice Down | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

Divine Brown, alias Estella Marie Thompson, alias the Hollywood hooker caught in flagrante delicto with Hugh Grant, pleaded no contest to lewd conduct in Hollywood Municipal Court and got six months in jail and a $1,350 fine. Thompson was sent to jail for violating a previous probation. Grant, whose record was clean, got off with a $1,180 fine and two years' probation. Brown was reportedly paid thousands of dollars to tell her story to a British tabloid newspaper, but People Page editor Belinda Luscombe says she's refused plenty of offers stateside. "She does seem to be showing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO FORGO IS DIVINE | 9/6/1995 | See Source »

...hangout in Hawaii, when she was stopped by a courtesy patrol. "From that time on," she says, "I felt they were watching me." Inspectors would burst into her room at 2 a.m., seeking to catch her in a compromising position. Though she was never caught in flagrante delicto, her sergeant accused her of being gay because she had no boyfriends. Janet's assignments deteriorated. Most punishing was a three-month posting to the field for maneuvers that involved 10,000 men -- and Janet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Sex, Lies and the Military | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

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