Word: clintonian
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Their standards for virginity, though, are generous. Almost all the students, for example, take a Clintonian approach to oral sex. "You can't get a girl pregnant by having oral sex," says Peter. "In Webster, in St. Louis, oral sex is not sex. It's just foreplay...
...heard right. Reputed "quota queen" Lani Guinier '71 will have yet another audience for her Clintonian tale of woe--the Class of 1994. Guinier is slated as the annual speaker for the pre-Commencement event, yet another example of how rude Presidential treatment can catapult the otherwise obscure to cult stardom. Although most people seem quite pleased with the choice, there is no doubt that a size able minority would prefer another speaker; after all, if getting jilted by Bill Clinton were sufficient qualification for giving the Address, we might as well invite Gennifer Flowers. At least...
After all those years spent learning from the master, it's no surprise that her candidate's persona last week was profoundly Clintonian--by turns folksy and falsely humble, dazzlingly smart and suddenly peremptory, as when she ignored or brushed aside inconvenient questions about the Lewinsky scandal (the affair that helped make this run possible, after all, by boosting sympathy and softening her image). All week long she tried her best to stick to a script that called on her to listen and learn, seeming to absorb knowledge and wisdom from local experts and average folks in Oneonta, Cooperstown, Utica...
...says Jim McAninch, who ran Bush's drilling operations in the early days. "He was a great promoter and a great money raiser." He also had, as a former colleague puts it, "a photogenic memory"--a malapropism that captures his gift for the social side of life, his Clintonian ability to remember names of countless people he has met only briefly...
...Ronald Reagan's--a message aimed squarely at conservatives who never felt comfortable with President Bush. The other message is one of inclusion: for a party that is often criticized as too Southern, too male and too white, Bush's committee of men, women and minorities boasts almost Clintonian diversity...