Word: camelot
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...this hypothetical job. In instant TV polls, he was the clear loser in the blame game. He is said to be humiliated by the revelation of the raunchy, so-called Camillagate tapes. His whole life has gone into preparing to ascend a throne that now seems as remote as Camelot...
...true that Arkansas is more complicated than the national press has revealed. And Little Rock is no Camelot-like micro-Washington...
...Thank you, New Mexico," Clinton began, as he sailed into a greatest-hits reprise of his stump speech. But he also sounded a new note that aides said was designed to lower voter expectations of a Clinton Camelot after the election: "I'm here to tell you we didn't get into this mess overnight, and we won't get out of it overnight." By the time Clinton left Albuquerque around 4 a.m., the first polls were open on the East Coast...
Back in the more comfortable '50s, show music was popular music. In 1957 the original-cast recording of My Fair Lady was America's top-selling album. In 1958 The Music Man was No. 1; in 1960, The Sound of Music; in 1961, Camelot. Even in 1964, the year the Beatles cued kids to buy their pop in long form as well as in singles, Hello, Dolly! was the No. 3 seller. Hair topped all 1969 LPs; the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice Jesus Christ Superstar (technically not an original cast album, since the piece was recorded before...
Perhaps this gets a bit too close to blame-the-victim. But could it be that the cumulative blackening of the sepulchers of Camelot is responsible for one of the most curious new trends in conspiracy-theory history -- the increasing number of people coming forward not merely to claim they know who did it but to confess they...