Word: jezebel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rational opinion of these "condemned prior to judged" politicians. How can we fairly assess Hillary Rodham Clinton's status without falling into one of the two media-produced camps? These days, it seems one must either join the majority in condemning Mrs. Clinton as a corrupt, adversarial Jezebel leading her husband into ruin or fight with the underdogs as a staunch Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter. These are the two ends of the spectrum, carefully constructed for us by the press...
...next few weeks, we must remember Hillary Rodham Clinton in each of these two roles. We must not allow the innovative style with which she has been First Lady to translate an increasingly loud female voice and influence in the White House into an Eve or Jezebel persuading the innocent man of the house to do evil. Putting the issue of gender aside, however, we must observe her closely. An unelected official who has wielded as much power as she must know that with the seizing of such
...inscrutable star, friendly and freewheeling when he chats about, say, a favorite restaurant (Jezebel's, a New York City soul-food place), but guarded when queries are made about his personal life and professional motives. Talking about himself, he gives a well-calibrated performance--though he's too good an actor for anyone to determine which of his moods are felt and which are feigned. When difficult questions are posed, he grows monosyllabic, evasive. Asked about a confrontation he reportedly had with director Quentin Tarantino over the repeated use of the N- word in Pulp Fiction, he pirouettes around...
Producer Paul Fox has given the band a more solid rhythmic foundation for this outing. Previously, Merchant and the other Maniacs could be so evanescent that they threatened to disappear in their own vapor trail. Here they sound sturdier, even when a string quartet floats through Merchant's wrenching Jezebel...
...song "Jezebel" deals with the pain and complexities of ending a marriage through a slow mournful beat followed by a quick, urgent one. The lyrics heighten the power of the song: "How I wish that we never had tried to be man and his wife/To weave our lives into a blindfold over both our eyes...