Word: paramours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Femme fatale No. 1: Carolyn Warmus, a former schoolteacher with a taste for high fashion and a penchant for liking the wrong guy. On May 27, a jury in White Plains, N.Y., convicted the Columbia graduate of murdering the wife of her onetime paramour and co-worker Paul Solomon. This wasn't the first time a rapt audience had heard the steamy details of Warmus' affair with the sixth- grade teacher. The "fatal attraction" case went to trial last year but ended in a hung jury. Now the 28-year-old killer could face life in prison...
...Gorman's attorneys hint at coercion. They suggest his programs were dropped from the satellite owned by James Bakker, of PTL teleministry notoriety, as a quid pro quo for Swaggart's business on the same system, and for the Louisiana preacher's silence about PTL hush money to Bakker paramour Jessica Hahn. If that was the deal, it didn't last: within a year Swaggart became one of Bakker's denouncers and helped bring about his resignation and PTL's financial collapse...
...with a political book. A columnist for the Baltimore Sun, Simon zigged where other reporters zagged, going to places and shadowing sources others ignored. He has an obvious feel for people and a way of making them talk. Simon's biggest coup is a chat with a former Hart paramour, described as a moderately attractive, 47-year-old divorcee. A patient, ardent suitor, Hart planned intimate dinners and romantic field trips to such venues as the Lincoln Memorial. In romance as well as politics, Hart seems like an escapee from Twin Peaks: once, he headed for the shower and handed...