Word: explains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sonorous voice was edged with contempt for the very idea that a roomful of reporters could question his honor. Standing under the hot lights last Thursday, Bill Clinton's close friend and unofficial adviser made it clear that this media circus meant little to him. "Never apologize, never explain"--that had been his motto for 17 years, ever since he left the presidency of the National Urban League after a racist gunman nearly took his life, going on to become Washington's most powerful back-room fixer. Now he had to violate that principle and offer a partial explanation...
Thanks to Clinton we have two other problems: having to explain to the kids over Cheerios not the significance of a visit to Cuba by the most famous celibate in the world but just why it is that a perky anchorperson is talking about something called oral sex. The second, perhaps more lasting problem is the legal precedent set by this ballooning investigation. Until last week, the criticism of independent counsel Kenneth Starr went largely to his unchecked power. Former Republican independent counsel Joseph diGenova calls the whole setup "a constitutional monstrosity." Now we watch as a prosecutor gunning...
...like treating children, almost," Peterson says. "You can't explain 'you have cancer...
...friend Bill was Dick Morris, famously felled by his own sex scandal. Some advisers didn't want Clinton to return the call -- one group thought Morris was bad for the regular staff's morale, another just sees him as radioactive -- but Clinton called back. The President explained that Morris was grateful to Clinton for not rejecting him in his disgrace, and "it would be wrong to refuse his help now." But that was then -- and this, after Morris implied yesterday on a KABC radio talk show that Hillary might be a lesbian, is now. Clinton is incredulous and furious, according...
...madman? A hypocrite? A messed-up guy chained to his one gift? In his brave, alert performance, Duvall typically doesn't try to reconcile, or even explain, the discrepancy between E.F.'s life-defining faith and his death-defying sociopathy. He leaves the judging to audiences. His job, which he does better than anyone else in movies, is to watch the world with those icy blue eyes...