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Other Presidents had an anchorman aura: authoritative, a bit square. Clinton has the urgency of a talk-show host. Or guest ("I want everyone to want me"--today on Jerry Springer). He is the first boyfriend (rather than father) figure in the White House since Jack Kennedy. Bye-bye, Poppy; hello, Elvis. That was the cue for the Southern beau-hunk to go on strutting his sex appeal, occasionally swiveling his ideology and forever crooning his ballads: "For I can't help/ Falling in love with...
Janis Joplin knew that the aura of self-destruction was part of her appeal. She also knew that to her contemporaries she was much more than a rock singer. She was a tragic heroine whose character summed up all the contradictions, frustrations and despairs of life under 30. Last week, on a day that at least superficially seemed to be less lonely than most, she died on the lowest and saddest of notes. Returning to her Hollywood motel room after a late-night recording session and some hard drinking with friends at a nearby bar, she apparently filled a hypodermic...
...years ago, in response to what Shaw calls "an unstated aura of threat in the air," HRDC formed a committee of students and ART professionals to review drama at Harvard...
Teaford thinks that the loss might have relieved some of the pressure on Harvard, even though it also cost the Crimson its aura of invincibility...
...which no one besides felons and welfare mothers is held responsible for his or her actions, compulsive womanizing has inevitably been redefined as sexaholism: the old kind of touchy feely meeting the new kind of touchy feely, which certainly sounds like President Clinton. One imagines that his tomcat aura may even have helped him in those precincts of the electorate that had come to see the Democrats as the no-fun, take-your-medicine, be-nice-to-everyone party--i.e., the girly-man party--after the Carter, Mondale and Dukakis debacles. Of all Clinton's straddles, maybe this...