Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lust in my heart"--not a confession at all, really, but coy, juvenile exhibitionism. Playboy would not be a good forum for Clinton. Jimmy Swaggart wept and chewed the furniture on the soundstage of his TV ministry. Without the gnashing of teeth, Clinton might at least entertain the idea of a group format. He is good at the Oprah-type give-and-take. If confession becomes inevitable, best to take control of the drama and stage-manage it to your advantage. Errancy and repentance and redemption have become one of our most exciting forms of public theater. Catharsis by celebrity...
...little brown house she rents on a road called Morning Glory. She draws hard on a long More cigarette, one of many she'll suck down during this week from hell. The day before, she made her national television debut, explaining through streaming mascara that she has no idea how one of a parent's worst nightmares had come true for her. Somehow her daughter is not her daughter, at least biologically. Somehow the girl she gave birth to on June 29, 1995, apparently was swapped with a girl born a few hours later to a 16-year-old cheerleader...
Marx was concerned that the human rights idea did not provide "man" with "real" freedom: it provided freedom of religion, but not freedom from religion, which Marx thought desirable. It provided freedom of property, not the freedom from property, which Marx wanted...
...Marx's view, this human rights idea only protected the rights of egoistic man, not of man as "species-being." So Marx's saying was a critique, not a happy description. To invoke it so out of context is absurd. AEYAL GROSS...
...around here," she floundered, making circles with her arms, "to Purchase College." She had no idea whence that response hailed...