Word: affair
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...equating the mayor with King is as bogus as comparing Donaldson to Bull Connor. The straightforward moral choices that Birmingham faced in King's day are not a reliable guide to sorting out the ambiguities posed by the Arrington affair. Back then, racist bombing attacks were so common that the city's best black neighborhood was nicknamed "Dynamite Hill." Parks, schools and buses were segregated, and most blacks were denied the vote. Today every legal vestige of Jim Crow has disappeared from the city, and Arrington sits in the mayor's office. The racial battleground is no longer black...
Until last week, that is, when the supermarket tabloid Star printed allegations by an Arkansas state employee and sometime cabaret singer named Gennifer Flowers that she and Clinton had a 12-year affair. Never mind that Flowers herself was already on record as denying the relationship. In a Jan. 30, 1991, letter, Flowers' attorney threatened legal action against a Little Rock radio station for "wrongfully and untruthfully ((alleging)) an affair between my client" and Clinton...
...Star bought Flowers' story for an undisclosed sum (Clinton says it was $50,000). In graphic detail, Flowers recounted the alleged affair that she said lasted from 1977 to 1989. Accompanying the tale were partial transcripts of about a dozen conversations Flowers taped of herself and Clinton over a 14- month period that ended in mid-January 1992. The Star has refused to let other journalists listen to the entire tape, but in an eight-second fragment made available last week, Clinton can be heard saying that "as long as everyone hangs tough" there will be no problems. "If they...
...first place, the pseudo-moral attention lavished on this spectacle offends a sense of proportion and priorities. Did Bill Clinton have an affair with Gennifer Flowers? The question must get in line behind real news: drugs and drug murders, AIDS deaths, illiteracy, a population getting dumber, 74,000 jobs lost at General Motors, Pan Am and Eastern folding, the highest homicide rate in the Western world. As for the sexual problems of America, they have less to do with consenting Governors going to bed with other adults than with the abuse of children, with sexual violence and rape and incest...
...been waiting for some time for America to mature on the subject of sex. Assume, however, that public interest in a candidate's + sex life is not prurience, not a sort of freebasing of sleaze, but an honest curiosity about a politician's character. What does an extramarital affair reveal? On purely civic grounds, the public would be better off investigating the politician's other habits. Healthy diet? Does he drink too much? Does he drive a car recklessly? Does he read books...