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Jenny E. Heller, in her piece "Ashamed to Be an American Abroad" (Opinion, Jan. 6) feels ashamed to be an American because her president had oral sex in the Oval Office. True, America has become a laughing stock. But this is not because President Clinton had an extramarital affair, but because the nation--especially its politicians and its press--have become obsessed with the issue...
...them with the teasing salutation "Dear Fart Face." While often melodramatic, the book explains the family's strong affection for and complex relationship with its most talented member. Says Hilary: "We all ran to keep up with her." Hilary also tactfully discusses why she believed that encouraging Jacqueline's affair with her husband would help her sister get over a difficult period in which she was briefly separated from Barenboim...
...shared his papers with her and even read her manuscript before it was published. Drawing on scores of interviews with people who knew Du Pre, Wilson tracks her career and scrupulously reconstructs all her performances. But the author doesn't completely shy away from salacious matters. She mentions the affair and notes that Du Pre also felt abandoned by Barenboim, who cared for her when she was ill but, during the same time, also set up house and fathered two children with another woman. This material, though, is dispensed with quickly. Du Pre, Wilson says, "would have been appalled...
DIVORCING. ANDREW BLEILER, 33, who carried on an adulterous affair with Monica Lewinsky; and his wife KATHLYN; in Portland, Ore. A staff member at Beverly Hills High School when he met Lewinsky, Bleiler called off the five-year affair in 1996, then blabbed it to the world last January...
...there the affair inevitably is, right at the center of Hilary and Jackie, its dramatic turning point, if this ill-considered film--which never finds a persuasive point of view on its subjects--can be said to have one. On the other hand, Hilary apparently wants us to understand that it was not for her a big or terribly traumatic deal. Once she accepted, at a comparatively young age, that as a flutist she could not rival her sibling's gifts as a cellist, she (along with everyone else in the family) became her sister's enabler, patiently enduring...