Word: gurus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under the heading "Gurus," an item in the January Esquire reported that HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON and New Age writer Marianne Williamson were frequent lunch companions and that the author of A Woman's Worth had even tried her hand at presidential speechwriting. Last week the First Lady replied. "[Williams] is neither my guru nor my spiritual adviser," she wrote. Still, Clinton does admire Williamson. "She is a political supporter who has an intriguing view about popular culture." Clinton did not address the speechwriting question...
...elected in the first place. ``Those old speeches,'' says an aide, ``were like core documents.'' The essence of the lesson, White House officials say, is that government must change but not disappear. Much has been made of Clinton's numerous meetings with manageagement mavens, late-night-television self-help gurus and, last week, a big group of history professors and other academics. But in the private speech-preparation sessions, it was the old speeches that Clinton kept coming back to. As he said at his first bull session on Jan. 9, ``What got me to the White House, what...
...Gurus: Newt's cyberbraintrust...
This is a nervous time for Harvard's public relations gurus. With a $2.1 billion capital campaign during which the University must raise $1 million per day, a serious mistake can cost Harvard big money...
...upper-class women ("Don't you ever feel like Chanel is really all you can count on?") or the self- absorption of their husbands ("Cuddling? There's hell on earth. How do you know when you're done?") A gay male art pornographer and a lesbian ex-con, gurus to dimwit straights, induce a conservative presidential hopeful to striptease, his wife to pose naked and their daughter to leave Junior League matronhood for lesbian passion. All their problems are solved at once. It seems we have seen this play before: back then it was called Hair, or maybe Oh! Calcutta...