Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...breath it. On "Monica beach," the 50-yd. stretch of White House gravel where the TV reporters do their stand-ups, 35 bright umbrellas sprouted like mushrooms, and the pressroom was packed despite a complete absence of news. Outside the White House, a man was arrested after he cut his throat with a screwdriver in front of the mansion, shouting, "Why do you care about Lewinsky? Bad things are happening in Iraq...
...what may seem clear cut in the abstract can become more complicated in real life. For instance, what exactly is infidelity? This is a question that in slightly different form--How does one define "sexual relations"?--continues to dog the President. According to the TIME/CNN poll, 95% of Americans, which is about as unanimous as we ever get, agree that "having sex with a prostitute" counts. On the other end of the survey's scale is "casually flirting with someone else," considered adulterous by a (hard to live with?) minority of 35%. Somewhere in the middle are "having a sexually...
Even without a special prosecutor, Republican strategists believe they have plenty of ammunition to use against Gore. One television spot in 2000 might begin with a clip of Clinton from this week, insisting that his denial of an affair with Monica Lewinsky had been "legally accurate," then cut to Gore squirming like an eel in March 1997, saying there was "no controlling legal authority" barring him from making those fund-raising calls. The kicker: DO YOU REALLY WANT FOUR MORE YEARS OF DOUBLE TALK...
...Religion and law are fishing at the opposite ends of a continuum," says Skip Masback, a former Washington litigator who is now a Congregational Church minister. "It's not enough for religion to say, 'Just be technically accurate,' for in the depths of the soul, dissembling just doesn't cut...
...left Creative Artists Agency in 1995. But managers, unlike agents, can act as producers, so the new Ovitz enterprise could have a broader scope than CAA. Those who doubt Ovitz has the patience to deal with finicky stars should note that he recently stepped in to help Barry Levinson cut a deal with Warner. And Ovitz?s old friends at CAA are painfully aware that he has taken ample office space on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, not far from the I.M. Pei?designed fortress that Ovitz constructed when he was master of the CAA universe...