Word: fair
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...Washington the talk of the town this week will probably be Vanity Fair's look inside the tormented saga of Bill and Hillary Clinton's marriage. Gail Sheehy's 21-page report examines the psychological underpinnings of the First Couple's frequently anguished relationship. Among the highlights is a rare interview with Dorothy Rodham, Hillary's mom, who sheds light on the First Lady's seemingly superhuman stoicism: "She is a very sensitive person. But she is able not to overemotionalize it ? She doesn't go into one of these horribly overwrought kinds of tizzies." Adds Mom: "That...
Turnabout is fair play, of course: gossips should get gossiped about. She concedes the point. "I have never thought of myself as a victim in all this," she says. "Never. Let them take their best shot. I can take a truthful slime. If it's truthful, fine. I mean, it's my life, I lived it, I can't refute it. That's the game. But you have to be bulletproof to survive something like this. And there is enormous freedom in not caring whether people like you. And I can tell you honestly: I do not give...
...press and the Washington establishment have been taking a beating for getting this one so totally wrong. But that's not fair. What about you? Suppose someone told you a year ago that the big story of 1998 would be a sex scandal involving the President and that it would reveal a great "disconnect" between Washington and the rest of the country. Then suppose you were asked to guess who was on which side. Put aside your own views on Presidents, oral sex, interns, perjury and so on. Would you have predicted that Washington would be outraged and the rest...
...CITY MOST FAIR...
...your story on Peter Ackroyd's biography of Thomas More [HISTORY, Dec. 7], you mentioned his next book, a biography of the City of London. Ackroyd referred to London as an "ugly, vandalized city." But every true Londoner thinks his city "more fair," with a "mighty heart," as did the poet Wordsworth when he crossed Westminster Bridge one morning in the 19th century. Seeing "ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples, all bright and glittering in the smokeless air," he thought it "a sight touching in its majesty." Londoners are so friendly, with a great sense of humor. They didn...