Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe that it's a constitutional ordinance to begin with, so I don't think they'll be able to build upon it," he said...
Soon, Clinton aides begin to see trouble in her eyes. They reassign her to the Pentagon, where Lewinsky meets Linda Tripp, a former Bush employee. Lewinsky brags to Tripp of her attempts to win the President's affection. Tripp is friends with Lucianne Goldberg, a New York literary agent who once posed as a journalist to spy for Richard Nixon. Goldberg has an idea: get Lewinsky to fantasize a bit further, put the confessions on tape and get revenge, once and for all, on Clinton and the Democrats. Lewinsky agrees to the plan and reads the scripted confessions over...
...wallows in the feelings of unworthiness and unlovability endemic in Old Cows. "When Ray dumped me, all I wanted to know was why," she explains. "I almost think that's worse than the act itself--the not knowing." Only when her best female friend is also dumped does Jane begin to sense that it's the bulls, not the cows, who have the greater problem, giving rise to her bovine theory of "why men flip-flop from passion to panic until they finally disappear." Just as the Cow device begins to wear thin and vengeful excess looms, Zigman reigns...
...REAL DRAG Everyone's arteries begin to harden with age, but the pace is significantly hastened if you breathe secondhand smoke. Moreover, among actual smokers, the arterial damage may be irreversible--even after quitting...
...come to count on France to be the sort of place where any transaction, from registering the name of a baby to checking out a volleyball, requires the approval of some sour time server who will straighten the carbons between eight copies of the appropriate form and begin his questioning with "Granmuzzer's maiden name?" I think it would be irresponsible for Lionel Jospin to transform French functionaries into cool guys who cut corners. Remember, we helped all these people out during the war. The least they can do is conform to our prejudices...