Word: salon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amenities: Swanky Oak Bar, 24-hour concierge, 24-hour private dining, multilingual staff, beauty salon, babysitting service, Executive Business Center, 24-hour valet parking, same-day laundry, health spa (with security cameras for those who might be cheating on their exercises) and lobby gift shops...
Already the 74-year-old widower has aced one test that no one expected him to face: the online magazine Salon reported three weeks ago that Hyde had an extramarital affair 30 years ago. That revelation "hurt him tremendously," says Congressman David Dreier of California, Hyde's friend and sometime movie companion. What Hyde felt was not so much personal embarrassment, say friends, as insult to his four children and his wife of 45 years, whom he still mourns since her death six years ago. Yet Hyde admitted the affair with a speed and self-effacement that set the standard...
WASHINGTON: Never mind Salon. Now that Hustler magazine has waded into the scandal arena, will any congressman's "youthful indiscretions" be sacred? A cool million bucks was what publisher and habitual agent provocateur Larry Flynt offered anyone with "documentary evidence" of "an adulterous sexual encounter with a current member of the United States Congress or a high-ranking government official." By taking out a full-page ad in the Washington Post Sunday, Flynt showed he's as serious as he ever gets; after all, every decent D.C. correspondent knows where the bodies are -- or were -- buried...
According to Salon magazine staffers, Washington bureau chief Jonathan Broder was fired because he promised his boss he would keep his strong objection to Salon's controversial Henry Hyde expos? to himself -- and then broke that agreement by talking to the Washington Post. Broder committed a "fundamental violation of the trust that any organization must have in its employees," Salon editor David Talbot told the New York Times, in what has become the official version of the events that led to Broder's ouster...
...Talbot says he ordered Jonathan Broder not to talk about the story -- Broder says he never agreed to that. When Broder told to Washington Post media harpy Howard Kurtz that he "objected to it on journalistic grounds, on grounds of fairness and because of the way Salon would be perceived," Talbot blew his stack, and Broder was gone. But should Talbot have made such a demand in the first place? The editor says that the magazine was under enough fire as it was -- bomb threats, congressional attacks, press hue and cry -- and that Salon didn't need any more...