Endless affairs, twice married, constantly on the run for either political or financial reasons, a prolific writer, an indefatigable composer, Wagner was also, as Michael Steen's narrative shows, a monster of egoism.
"Even in the louche world of Fleet Street," Jeremy McCarter writes in the introduction to this collection, Fairlie "distinguished himself: he drank; his finances were a crime against responsibility; his charm and darkly handsome looks availed him of endless affairs".
He did, however, meet Berenice Abbott, who introduced him to the pioneering work of French photographers such as Eugène Atget.Back in New York, Evans joined a sophisticated Bohemian circle which included James Agee, Edmund Wilson and John Cheever and seems to have revolved around endless affairs and radical politics.
My father wasn't having endless affairs and he didn't work in advertising.
"It's an endless love affair with art, sculpture, pattern," one that is enriched by the interests and collections of new clients.
"At the risk of making you all very cross, may I suggest that it is time the British gave up on their endless love affair with the dog," she said.
To soften the first night it took the first lady, who, in dulcet tones but to devastating effect, delivered an exquisitely crafted speech that linked her personal love for her husband to devout Democrats' endless love affair with both of them.
Llanfiar has succumbed to fire, gun violence and endless marital affairs.
He had endless sordid sexual affairs, often emotionally and socially destroying the women he slept with.
Banner traces an endless stream of affairs — Marilyn justified promiscuity with the conviction that sex was "an act that brought friends closer together" — including several with women and those with Bobby and Jack Kennedy, her most dangerous liaisons.
