Word: chelsea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...embarrassing enough when my parents, crying, holding baby pictures and stuffing a flowery note into my carry-on bag, dropped me off at Newark Airport eight years ago for my freshman year at Stanford. But Chelsea Clinton's parents showed up at her Stanford dorm last Friday night not only mushy but also in a motorcade flanked by security guards and nearly 250 of their closest journalists. I would have died...
...would have killed her before I died), asking journalists to leave her daughter alone, the Clintons permitted move-in day to be a public event. The Clinton Administration, after all, has fine-tuned an Oprah-style culture of public emoting. And emote they did. Mom shopped for supplies with Chelsea; Bill packed and then carried boxes. Last Wednesday, as Clinton was working on answers for questions on the tobacco settlement, spokesman Mike McCurry told him to prep for Chelsea questions as well. The President winced and asked, "Do I have to?" Then Al Gore asked, "So, are you doing...
Even before Chelsea arrived at Stanford, every woman with curly, strawberry blond hair was getting even more double takes than usual. The rumors floating around campus the week of her arrival ranged between true and scary: bulletproof glass in her room (yes), cameras in the hallways (yes) and bathroom (no), massive construction on campus to transform the underground steam tunnels into escape routes (no), that she chose Stanford to be with some mystery frat-boy boyfriend (no), that Secret Service men live in the rooms around and above and below her to prevent people from drilling into her room...
Despite her celebrity, Chelsea will experience a development similar to that of her peers. She will never really be a part of her parents' home again, she will get used to living away from her mother and father and she will realize that what lies ahead of her is a life that she will have to define...
This four-year trajectory, as it were, occupies the pages of American press every fall, because college in America creates adulthood. Chelsea Clinton has occupied the national spotlight for a brief moment, not because she is the daughter of the President, but because she is a daughter about to become a young woman; parents, students and future parents can relate to what the First Family is going through because the college experience is an integral part of growing up in America. Her celebrity has brought college once again to front pages across the country, but her status as a Clinton...