Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mean to sound overly cynical or harsh and I certainly do not mean to imply that, by their involvement with this sordid affair, the Senate president and the House Speaker are bad or irresponsible people. They simply gave in to a strong temptation, the temptation to help themselves at the expense of others...
Tomorrow at midnight, Undergraduate Council election commissioners will tally the votes in the presidential and vice-presidential elections, and the campus will find out who will lead the council next year. This year's election has been, on the whole, an uninteresting affair. It's a safe bet that few students--with the exception of the candidates, their lackeys, and The Crimson--will stay up for the results...
...appeals court in Chicago, where he pens about 100 decisions a year, and he teaches law at the University of Chicago. He also finds time to churn out scores of law-review articles, speeches, op-ed pieces and, oh yes, a book or two a year. (His latest: An Affair of State, a scathing account of President Bill Clinton's impeachment woes; and the less reader-friendly The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory.) "Dick is sort of a legendary intellect," says law-school colleague Randal Picker. "He is one of the great legal minds of the 20th century...
...Zangler, the illustrious Hungarian owner of The Zangler Follies in New York City. While Averell has become a minor celebrity after his recent stowaway escapade, he was clearly meant to play Bela, with his slapstick antics and comic walk and accent. The sub-plot of Bela and Tess' love affair adds more fuel to the comic fire of Crazy...
...Allens most complex film has a dual plotline, with a comic strand about a filmmaker (Allen) intertwining with the story of a married man (Martin Landau) undergoing an affair and a crisis of faith. Landaus performance is a standout, and the merging of the two stories in the films final scene is both daring and entirely successful...