The cast of characters in the "embarrassing affair" is very similar to that of the real-life scandal, involving the Pechiney aluminum company, that rocked Mitterrand's presidency in 1988.

ting-in-state ever since the embarrassing affair thirty years previously with the late Prissal 'Merry Rankster' Teatar.

The whole embarrassing affair is dominating Germany's news media this weekend.

We succeeded in making a joke out of what might have been a most embarrassing affair, and so it is that my last memory of her is of her laughter.

"It's an embarrassing affair," Mr. Goldstein said.

Victim of a swindle, David Douillet quickly put this embarrassing affair to rest by gaining his fourth world title a few weeks later.

His star crashed once, in 1988, amid his disclosure about an embarrassing public affair and his initial refusal to choose between his wife and another woman.

The embarrassing affair was eventually sorted out and he was released.

It is a pity that at the end of this term some MEPs have become entangled in such an embarrassing affair.

"I found the whole affair quite embarrassing."