Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They even ask if I've ever been part of an organization that supports the overthrow of the U.S. government, and if yes, to explain," Woodley says. "Like any explanation would be good enough...
...despite its past performances, we heard nary a peep from them in the first several days of the Lewinsky story, aside from more legalistic nondenials from Clinton. Now the Clinton team says it cannot explain anything in detail because it must collect information for Kenneth Starr's investigation. Yet Clinton is under no legal constraint, and the only facts that matter reside in his head. Simply put, an innocent man does not behave as Clinton has in the past two weeks. This is the case of Sherlock Holmes and the dog that didn't bark...
...evening news. I flatter myself that it's a scene from the civics textbooks: Dad introducing Junior to the wide world of public affairs. My son knows something is up with President Clinton, but he's not sure what, precisely, and I'm not sure I want to explain it to him. Suddenly the words Oval Office pop out from the newsreader, and then President, then oral sex, and my son's brow furrows. He looks up at me, thoroughly puzzled. I reach for the mute button and kill the sound from the TV. This is not what the civics...
...This in turn produced Microsoft's infamously petulant response: offering to sell versions of Windows that didn't have Explorer but didn't work either. After showing in court that it took less than 90 seconds to disable Explorer using Windows' "Add/Remove" program, Jackson testily asked the company to explain why it was not in contempt...
Should we explain Bill Clinton that way? Bill Clinton and Lyndon Johnson were different in this: L.B.J. was unmistakably, with all his faults, a grownup man; his downfall--brought on when his Great Society got lost in the war he would not or could not escape--had a tragic size and weight. Clinton remains a very bright End of History boy-man. There is something trivial and unnecessary in his travails, and even if they lead to his downfall, they will seem sordidly silly...