Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ambivalence? Without a doubt, randomization has a lot to do with it. Since our fate is determined by some complex computer algorithm, it doesn't really matter where we want to live anyway. Why should we place undue stress in unnecessary places? That's what blocking...
...right-wing caricature, because it feels so real. Largely completed before America had heard of Lewinsky, the film comments on the scandal in ways that are downright eerie. Just as the public doesn't know what actually happened between Clinton and Monica--or Clinton and Gennifer Flowers, for that matter--so the movie refuses to spell out what did or didn't happen between Stanton and the women he is accused of bedding. Since unresolved questions and muddied waters are hallmarks of the Clinton presidency, glossing the indiscretions and lingering over the cover-up feels just right. The film moves...
...Lewinsky scandal may attract more customers. "Of course, we could have been hurt if Clinton had resigned," says Universal Pictures chairman Casey Silver. "People might have been so despondent and depressed that they wouldn't have wanted to go see the movie." But politics or even prurience may matter little to moviegoers. Studio surveys indicated that only 3% had read the book and that audiences rarely mentioned the Clinton connection even when they'd seen the film. At an early screening in Seattle less than 1% noted similarities to scandals in the White House. Says Nichols: "There was one card...
...realize that our individual privacy is under attack? As Monica Lewinsky's lawyers, William Ginsburg and Nathaniel Speights [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 16] said, "Starr seems to think it's O.K. to break the law to enforce the law." Our individual rights, along with the truth, do not seem to matter if they do not fit in with the power elite's agenda. Anyone can be a victim. Wake up, America! KAREN CAGLE Fort Collins, Colo...
...quarter old, 1998 already has distinguished itself in the realm of awkward excuses and unconvincing explanations. And with hardly anyone in the Lewinsky matter yet on public record, the best may be yet to come...