The director plays Mary Jo's trucker boyfriend, who is only the latest in a series of her romantic disasters (Holden).

Justin Pollard has had the clever idea of presenting us with roughly 150 bizarre episodes from British history, cases of fraud, criminality, bad luck, romantic disaster, derring-do, outrageous wagers . . . well, you name it.

In many of Miss Murdoch's novels, romantic disasters, suicides and even murder are set in motion by a character who is brilliant and ferociously self-absorbed.

Having endured years of romantic disasters, Charity loved Tom's stability and devotion, and he had fallen deeply in love with her.

In "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," George Balanchine's choreographic sketch to Bizet, a whirl of feelings led to romantic disaster.

After many romantic disasters, he gets married later in the series.

The track was inspired by a romantic disaster that occurred while King lived in Copenhagen.

The best of this fall's new travel books offer proof of all these arguments through a lively sampling of female perspectives - and a celebration of women by a man using travel to rebound from romantic disaster.

There is little on his youth besides a few romantic disasters, and we move quickly to the safer ground of revolution.