Word: gristly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sees the funny side of things that happened in our relationship, both good and bad," Greenblatt says. "To the extent that I have seen things I have done become grist in her mill, I think it's funny...
...adviser. Though the forum is shaping up as a centerpiece of Clinton's transition, the record of such talkfests has often been meager. Gerald Ford's 1974 meeting of the minds produced mainly red-and-white WIN (Whip Inflation Now) buttons that proved to be little more than good grist for Johnny Carson monologues. "If it's just blah-blah-blah, it's a total waste of time," says Hewlett-Packard chairman John Young, a Clinton supporter. "But if it's eight or 10 people fine-tuning, framing and giving direction to a policy, that's another thing altogether...
...small town. Instead, he experienced his first disorientation in this restored life with two parents. Roger Clinton's anger was explosive when he drank. In one of his rages, he fired a gun into the wall and was taken off to jail -- a searing memory for Clinton, and grist for the busy rumor mills of Hope...
...late '60s but felt compelled to add that not only had he not liked it, he had not even inhaled -- an assertion that many others who had smoked marijuana, then and later, found hilariously unbelievable. Clinton could have avoided the whole brouhaha, and what is threatening to become grist for a million late-night-TV jokes, by just saying "Yes, and so what?" the first time he was asked...
...become as comforting to millions of viewers as warm wool pajamas: McMahon's booming, endlessly imitated introduction ("Heeeeeere's Johnny"); the natty golf swing that signals the end of the opening monologue; Carson's nervous tics (fiddling with his tie, drumming a pencil on the desk), which have provided grist for impressionists from Rich Little to Dana Carvey. The program has had moments of great theater, from Tiny Tim's wedding to Miss Vicki to Michael Landon's poignant last appearance to discuss his terminal cancer. But mostly the show has succeeded because of its cozy familiarity. Critic Kenneth Tynan...