Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? --Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass...
...Monica-joke well is getting seriously dry. The funniest moment of the night belonged to diminutive ex-labor secretary Robert Reich on "PI," claiming deadpan that in 30 years of friendship, Clinton had never tried to kiss him -- "not even a fondle." Odd. He's so cute...
...Bennett Williams, Jordan's partner Robert Strauss--is a larger-than-life figure. But unlike them, he chooses to be virtually invisible--a self-protective mechanism he put into place after he was shot. He makes few speeches, shuns TV, grants almost no interviews and never, ever discusses his friendship with Clinton--with anyone. That discretion magnifies his value because Jordan appears at Clinton's side at the direst of times. He was with Governor Clinton in 1980 after the young pol's bitter electoral defeat. He was with President Clinton on the night of Vincent Foster's suicide...
...Friendship is thrust upon Melvin, and he doesn't quite know what to do with it. When Simon is beat up in his apartment and Melvin winds up caring for his dog (the very one he tried to dump earlier), Melvin develops an attachment to the animal that sets the stage for actual interaction with humans. Similarly, he becomes so dependent on the daily routine of Carol's service that, when she takes time off to care for her asthmatic son, he is virtually forced to involve himself in her life and set things right again. In the process...
...soon joined by Claire who, motivated by Julie's assertiveness, abandons her husband and begins searching for a job. The two begin to connect with each other in their conversations and emotional outbursts and come to respect each other, transcending the common homemaker small talk and cocktail party friendship...