affair
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These were but a small aspect of a long love affair with printmaking that saw him embrace techniques both age-old and radically new.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
“The Little Sister” grows even more intriguing once the love affair runs aground, forcing Fatima to flounder in her heartache.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
The whole affair was tawdry, shabby, and cheap—designed to pander to downwardly mobile young men who felt angry at the world.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
But if you can put aside its context and view “The Bride!” as a kitschy Halloween affair, a “Scooby-Doo Meets Frankenstein’s Bride” animated special come to life, it’s almost impossible not to crack a smile.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026
In 1798, he commissioned James Callender, a notorious scandalmonger who had recently broken the story on Hamilton’s adulterous affair with Maria Reynolds, to write a libelous attack on Adams.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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The Poet X
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