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...like a big Norman ox, square-headed, strong-nosed, an homme du peuple. And indeed his father was, by trade, a cattle breeder. But the son studied architecture, and this began a lifetime's fascination with structure. His art training was, in fact, classical. His main teacher was Jean-Leon Gerome, academic par excellence, and it's not much of a stretch to suppose that the Geromes and Bouguereaus he saw, with their pale, continuously rounded flesh (tubular, in a way) and their meticulous highlights, influenced the "Tubism" of his maturing style. The manikins in his Contrast of Form paintings...
Thus the parade of witnesses: Nelvis the steward, who is in the White House day and night; and Currie the personal secretary, who works long hours; and George Stephanopoulos, who was Clinton's alter ego; and Leon Panetta, the former chief of staff; and then Kris Engskov, the body man who carries Clinton's coat. Starr has subpoenaed the phone logs and entrance logs and sought the testimony of Secret Service agents. And he has done all this in the same 10-day period during which he was searching Monica's apartment, questioning relatives, pursuing leads from her proffer...
...prosecutor leaked--top officials have often been the source of some of the very stories they decry. In the winter of 1973, after the first special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, had been fired by Nixon in a confrontation over access to the secret White House tapes, a Texas lawyer named Leon Jaworski took over the case. After he went to Washington, some of the tapes were handed over to the prosecutor's office, and Jaworski listened to them...
...details. The political calculation among Republicans could be that a wounded Clinton who serves out his term is better than an incumbent President Gore who has put all this ugliness behind him. It was a measure of the President's free fall that his own former chief of staff Leon Panetta told the San Jose Mercury News that if the allegations are true, it might be better "if Gore became President and you had a new message and a new individual up there. The worst scenario is if there's substance to it and it drags out." For their part...
Lewinsky started out in the office of the President's then chief of staff, Leon Panetta. In carrying out the duties of internship, she was attentive verging on ingratiating. She reportedly had a habit of bringing coffee to staff members who had not asked for any. "She was more interested in schmoozing with staffers than with other interns," says a former intern who worked with Lewinsky in the fall of 1995. She was particularly taken with the President. Aides last week described her as starstruck. "She was drawn to the power of the White House and knowing the President," says...