Word: embellishments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Starr and plans for a tell-all book à la Gary Aldrich. But Tripp does defend the friend she lost when those tapes went public: Lewinsky was ?a bright, caring, generous soul -- one who has made poor choices. She was not a stalker, she was invited; she did not embellish, the truth is sensational enough.? Whether this is also true of Tripp herself is still debatable...
...stewardship in office and his ability to put the public good ahead of private gain. But, sadly, every President since Washington has had "debunkers," like Seymour Hersh in his new book about Kennedy, The Dark Side of Camelot [NATION, Nov. 17]. Such authors are all too willing to embellish the facts to besmirch the personal life of the individuals who have held America's highest elective office. JOHN T. BERNSTEIN SR. Bloomington...
...unabashedly unrehearsed. The tunes lack structure and coordination: The band seems to be no more aware of when the song should end than the listener. Many start with a open chord guitar riff that continues throughout, while nonsense vocals rhyme over the top and the Moog organ and drums embellish the texture...
Adams was off by a couple of days (he was marking the resolution of independence; we celebrate the signing of the Declaration). But regarding the guns, bonfires and illuminations, he was right on target. In typically American fashion, fireworks displays have grown passe by overuse; they embellish everything these days from baseball games to Disney movie openings. Still, there's something irresistible, and irreplaceable, about a July 4 sound-and-light show: "And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting...
...when it describes details of his mother's corpse and the procedures at her autopsy. He is also quite blunt about the sexual allure that memories of his mother--he calls her the Redhead--bring up for him: "I had to relive my incestuous fantasies and contextualize them and embellish them past the shame and the sense of boundary that always restricted them. I had to shack up with my mother...