Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case comes to trial next month, Clinton could use the not-guilty verdict he expects to argue the pointlessness of Starr's efforts. Of course, even if Starr wins the privilege fight, the prosecutor might not gain all that much. Clinton aides can simply take a page from their boss and say they don't remember...
Yeltsin's choice of a young newcomer implies, of course, that he intends to be the boss and that it matters little who is Prime Minister. That could be a bad thing for a Russia that desperately needs continuity and leadership. For years Yeltsin's bursts of energy have been followed by illnesses and disappearances, vacations and prostration. He seems to have no reserves of stamina left, and the breakdowns are coming more frequently now. After he ousted the government last week, he tried to pump himself up again for a summit session with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and French...
Fortunately for Wurtzel, her book comes out at a moment when the culture seems painfully devoid of commanding female troublemakers. Courtney Love is now a chic model/actress, and Sharon Stone has married, in a big peony of a dress, a newspaper boss. We have no brazenly rapacious Barbara Stanwycks or Bette Davises; instead we have Monica Lewinskys and Ally McBeals, women just insecure and pesty. On the bright side, no one will ever make a career out of doing Calista Flockhart in drag...
Before Clinton's troubles, there were already concerns that sexual-harassment laws had gone too far. Jones' case shows that an innocent bystander who has been promoted can now be subpoenaed and required to show that the promotion was based on merit and not on having slept with the boss. And who really thinks the poor sap who spoke at work about a sexual innuendo on Seinfeld should have been sued? And while a woman's sexual history is not relevant, her behavior after an alleged incident can reasonably be considered...
...10th Congressional seat up creaky stairs in Cambridge and Charlestown tenements to meet voters. Powers was behind the scenes for every campaign thereafter. In turn, Powers credited Kennedy with taking a poor newsboy and bringing him into politics. In the 35 years after the death of his boss and friend, Powers remained unfailingly loyal. He never revealed what indiscretions he might have witnessed or secrets he might have known. For him, the campaign never ended. He introduced himself enthusiastically to every volunteer at the library, never forgot a face and always ended conversations with, "Thanks for all you're doing...