Word: felted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment, Clinton still had 12 days before his appointment with Kenneth Starr, but his thoughts that night at the White House were of rebellion--against Starr, against the advice of his own lawyer, David Kendall, against the expectations building on all sides. He had agreed to testify because he felt he had no choice in the face of a subpoena and the warnings from Democrats that he had better not fight it. But no decisions are forever these days, and so on the eve of Monica's testimony, one of Clinton's closest advisers slipped into the White House late...
Jesse Peretz strikes hard with First Love, Last Rites, and for the most part, the impact of his work is felt in all the right places. A story of learning how to live and interact when you realize that you'll never be handed any instruction manual, Peretz endows his characters with the ability to learn and his audience with the ability to understand. This is a movie that really shouldn't be missed--even if the theater isn't air conditioned and you're feeling hotter than the sugar factory workers on a muggy bayou...
...happy ending or even a resolution, each one points to a struggle to keep writing, a decision not to give up. New York, therefore, becomes through the essays a city of hope that overcomes loneliness; Caitlin Cheevy, looking down at her newborn baby, writes: "Never have I felt a sweeter love." Her emotion redeems her city and breaks through the detachment of New York's generation of writers. Personals, like the ads that the book is named after, faces loneliness head on and tries, by all possible means, to overcome...
...next summer, however, everything was going to be different. I was on my way to a fancy (though unspeakably boring) publishing internship and felt eons away from the emotional frailties that plagued me during the PBH summer. And once again, I fell victim to many things I didn't know: High heels, cute as they may look, are not comfortable if you're walking in them for more than five minutes. Garbage does not take itself out. Having a T-pass in the summer will get you out of the house like never before. Staying up all night creating...
...President shared bouts of "intimate touching" near the Oval Office and some heated late-night phone calls, as a rule they stopped short of sexual climax. It was Clinton's preference. "It was basically like foreplay," Young concluded. "Nothing was ever taken to completion." The President "felt it really wasn't oral sex if it wasn't completed...