Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whatever else the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal may ultimately be viewed as--grounds for impeachment, epic tabloid sideshow or the latest outbreak of puritan hysteria in the culture that gave us The Scarlet Letter--it already provides a cautionary tale about the dangers of instant intimacy. In the socially transient, lonely world of Washington, where betrayal is only a subpoena away, even between the closest confidants, and a flurry of quickies in a private bathroom can turn a couple, in Monica's words, into "sexual soul mates," fast friendship may be the ultimate danger...
...made a bigger splash than Elway in 1983. He was an instant starter for Denver and won his first two games. But after losing the next three games, he was benched. Elway got to start five more games that season only because Steve DeBerg got hurt...
Sharks cruised by, grays and makos, and cash floated up from the depths. He saw a $1,000 U.S. bill riding a current, absurdly intact, the slow-motion tumble of a dream that makes no sense. Two hundred twenty-nine people had plunged from the sky in unthinkable terror, instant death their only mercy...
...also deserves credit for the way he has always approached the fielding of his position, which is truly scientific and has resulted in two well-earned Gold Gloves. George Will's instant baseball classic Men at Work chronicled the way that Ripken meticulously prepares for each hitter, using scouting to anticipate the batter's tendencies to allow him to get to balls otherwise out of his (limited) range...
...marriages, the Clintons' is a mystery, only more so. How can she stand his repeated betrayals? Does she yearn for power that much, or does she, in the words of Sara Ehrman, the friend who reluctantly drove her across the country from a promising legal career in Washington to instant obscurity practicing law in Arkansas, still "love him something awful"? The Clintons nearly separated in the late '80s, after the then Governor had an affair. But several years ago, a friend noticed that the marriage was much improved. "Hillary liked living above the store. He was under a kind...