Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over the years she had made a sort of don't-ask-don't-tell marital contract, that still did not fully equip her to handle Lewinsky. That he had continued to carry on right in their home, when she was out of town, after church on Easter, once on their anniversary, with at least the complicity of co-workers, was demeaning to her; his choice of paramour, meanwhile, demeaned him. "It wasn't an adult relationship. It was a man thinking he was 14 years old," says a friend...
Journalists are the last to know. We're like terriers on speed; our heads spin at the slightest rattle. But history is a mule in the thicket; it moves when it moves. If you ask me, the story of the year could just as easily have been the moment when Iran lifted its fatwah bounty off the head of Salman Rushdie, or when Iranian President Mohammad Khatami gave an interview to CNN--baby-step signs of a revised national policy regarding the Great Satan...
...tuned in to the Howard Stern show two weeks ago. Don't ask, please. Anyway, the bad boy of radio was engaged in some sort of bimbo quiz show in which one judge was mentally ill and, prompted by Stern, trying in vain to elaborate on his scoring. Such "humor" is old hat for Stern. What caught my ear was that this ratings king and cash cow for Infinity Broadcasting was speaking of plans to retire. It was just days before Infinity sold 140 million shares to the public for $3 billion, and raises interesting questions for stockholders--not least...
...parent. Not at Merrill Lynch, the underwriter. Not Stern himself, whose sidekicks block any call not having to do with body parts. And none will say how long he's under contract, even though that question came up during Infinity's "road show," where big investors get to ask such things...
...possible, of course, that the next really big male opera singer may not be a tenor. Ask Joseph Volpe, the Met's general manager, what he is planning to do when Pavarotti and Domingo are no longer available to open the season, and the first name he mentions is that of Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel. "At some point," he confides, "we're going to open with a Don Giovanni starring Bryn." No, Terfel can't sing a high C, but Volpe is betting that won't matter. "Bryn's the one who has all of the goods," he says...