Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jean Y. Chiotti Emporia...
...most aggressively competitive series of confessions since Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Like a sinner who does not want to miss any bets, Billie Jean King made the rounds of the major churches and synagogues of press and television last week. She unburdened herself to ABC'S Barbara Walters, the one woman in America officially empowered to hear confessions and grant absolution. She went over the scandal with Rona Barrett. She spent ten hours with an old friend from PEOPLE...
...tough get going. King was bouncing back from public humiliation better than any similarly poleaxed public figure in a long time. She had slipped only briefly at the start of the whole ridiculous business. When her former secretary Marilyn Barnett for "palimony," a lesbian relationship with King, Billie Jean first responded with a denial...
...thought about it, might worry about the almost cynically unliberated way that Larry later took the rap for his wife's affair, saying that it was his long absences on business that drove her into the arms of another for consolation, like a sulking housewife. Never mind. Billie Jean practiced first-class damage control and won the grace-under-pressure award for this month. She managed to transform an ugly and preposterously public embarrassment into something else: an affectingly human little drama about Billie Jean King in trouble...
Admitting to the affair was not easy for King. "I had to say it," she said. "You have to live with yourself." Larry kept an arm around her during the press conference and said the episode had not affected his love for her. In turn, Billie Jean said of him: "He's my husband, my lover and best friend...