Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deception alone. In fact, given all the people in a position to see Monica coming and going delivering papers, pizza and presents, Clinton appears to have been surrounded by the most supine courtiers since Claudius. Until last week his secretary, Betty Currie, was portrayed as a warm-hearted yet harmless bystander in the Oval Office; the Starr report suggests that she was something more than that. Currie, as much as Vernon Jordan, emerges as the President's co-conspirator in covering up the affair, which may help explain why she testified five times. Clinton denied putting Currie up to these...
...people of the U.S. decide to dispose of Clinton, maybe we can trade. We offer 20 Italian politicians, all guaranteed sexually harmless, for one U.S. President. Just come and pick the ones you prefer; we have a rich choice. FABIO FUMI Trieste, Italy...
This Jesuitic fine slicing is a harmless, even touching, instance of the sly evasion, a technique the President has made famous, in which a statement is true word for word but false in spirit. He will forever be known as the President who "didn't inhale," but the dodges leading up to that indelible admission are worth remembering too. When he was first asked whether he'd ever used marijuana, candidate Clinton replied that he'd "never violated the laws of my country"--then that he had "never violated any state laws." And this was true, literally. It turned...
...Tawana Brawley case? Tawana? It was such a parenthetical sadness--though also a stroke of cunning--that she was led to such a degrading fantasy, herself as garbage. But the unambiguous casualty was a white assistant prosecutor from Dutchess County named Steven Pagones. Tawana's was not a harmless lie. Once the story went public, it attracted three professional race men named C. Vernon Mason, Alton Maddox and Al Sharpton, lawyers who arrived to work as Tawana's handlers and to demagogue the case in the media. The three identified Pagones as one of the white rapists. Pagones has spent...
...describe his personality? His politics? His sense of humor? His likes or dislikes? Bitter sitcom writers, accustomed to having edgy material rejected, use this analogy: Bugs Bunny is funnier, smarter and more interesting than Mickey Mouse, who has no known personality except for being vaguely likable and harmless. Mickey is worth a trillion dollars. Be like Mickey...