Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wished I had brought a snack. I especially am fond of those Entenmann's Pop'ems you can get at Store 24 anytime, except that one hour when they actually close. What a scam! (More on the insidious lie that is capitalism later...
Lewinsky: I think it was a bond that in some ways can't be explained. I don't know how to explain it, except that I was instantly comfortable with him. There was something familiar about him to me. I think it's amazing when someone will come into your life and you have a special connection with them. I know he had remarked to me that we both had fire in our belly. And to me that's passionate. And passion has its good side, and passion has its bad side. And I think that we're both extroverted...
...woman who must have been a model removed a bottle from her purse. She raised it high and squirted a long stream down onto her cupped hands, which she rubbed together like she was starting some crazy, germ-killing fire. It was just like in the movies, except this movie was made by a neurotic Jewish guy like me. Like movies...
...Killer Germ is a Frankenstein's monster built from our collective neuroses. To fight this new battle, I now think that everyone, even exhibitionist models with a knack for sensuous hand gestures, should abandon their Purell. Except me. I haven't been waging the germ war because I'm afraid of getting sick. I like being sick. It means I get to stay home and watch that little yodeling mountain climber on The Price Is Right. No, I'm waging my own secret, illogical germ warfare because that way, when the end comes and it's just me and Mandel...
...elsewhere, where children of wealth compete to prove their excellence. Nobody who's 'got it made' has to strive for A's at Harvard, or go out for the varsity, or try for the lead in undergraduate plays, or 'comp' for the Crimson, or do much of anything except get by and get into the Porcellian Club. Everything is optional, as most things always will be for these children of the rich." Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr., author of Old Money: the Mythology of America's Upper Class...