Word: libidos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have all of the ingredients needed to undermine the President. Unlike Whitewater, these allegations are simple to understand. And unlike campaign finance improprieties, this case is so sordid that, for a time, CNN was the dirtiest channel on cable. Most importantly, though, unlike the previous charges regarding Clinton's libido, this one can be respectably pursued under the protective blanket of the pursuit of justice. In short, Lewinsky should be a dream-come-true for Republicans...
...roots of the word "love" can be traced back to the Indo-European root leubh, meaning "to care" or "to desire," approximated from words including the Latin lubet, "it pleases" and the Sanskrit lubhyati, "he desires." Along with "love," related English words like "libido" and "belief" also descend from *lebuh...
That assessment was already looking generous by the weekend, as Americans resigned themselves to turning on the news or picking up their papers and having to read stories that painted the White House as a harem, the President as a lecher and the government as a hostage to his libido. No matter what he does, the President now faces a steady flow of ugly leaks from the conversations Tripp recorded or recalled having with Lewinsky. In those conversations, Lewinsky is graphic in detailing, and at times denigrating, the President's sexual characteristics and performance. Clinton, she claimed at one point...
Some Clinton advisers now wonder if they should have done more to keep a lid on things. For a man with Clinton's lively libido, the West Wing presented a garden of temptation. Did it lead him over the edge? "It wasn't that aides arranged this [environment]," says a former official. "It's that they didn't do much to stop it. They didn't want to get cut out or lose their standing, or they feared his blue-temper rages...
...cover. She was also a sex symbol at a time when black actors rarely had love scenes. Says Darius James, author of the book That's Blaxploitation!: "Pam Grier was one of the first important female action heroes. She was able to both exploit the male libido and assert [physical] power over men." Coffy and Foxy Brown may be shoddy films, but they serve up sex and violence in visceral ways. At the start of Foxy Brown, Grier hides a gun in her bra. It's an image one imagines the young Tarantino appreciated...