Word: momentousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outside the White House will be quibbling there, thanks to Lewinsky's phenomenal memory and careful record keeping. Awestruck and infatuated though she may have been, Lewinsky was a cool and precise recorder of every moment she spent with Clinton--what they said and did, which Secret Service agents were warily watching them come and go, which aides were shooting daggers at her outside the Oval Office, which phone calls Clinton took during their time together. The narrative relies on Lewinsky's testimony for the particulars of 10 alleged sexual encounters, but to bolster her credibility--she did, after...
...Clinton's presidency survives the coming weeks and months, it's likely to contain more moments like that one--"remorse ops," you might call them--at which regrets will be offered to his family and friends, to his Cabinet and staff, to Monica Lewinsky and her family (whom he mentioned for the first time at the prayer breakfast) and to the American people. Before this is over he'll be apologizing to our pets. But to anyone familiar with the boom-and-bust cycles of the Clinton psyche--and by now who isn't?--his dark morning of the soul...
...course, he has never faced a moment as dangerous as this one. Democrats are holding themselves aloof from him or worse, some newspapers are already calling for his resignation, and the rough beast of public opinion is slouching toward Washington, however slowly. For all those reasons, no one can rule out the possibility that he might just decide to throw up his hands and go. But everything in his past insists otherwise. In much of his political life, whether it involved welfare reform, tax cutting or health care, Clinton has been famously open to compromise and tactical retreat. Where...
...stolen kiss early one evening in a shadowy hallway. Both, apparently, resolved to put off any serious sex until their second date. As luck would have it, their second date occurred only two hours later, when the President ushered her into his study. There he invited sex one moment, only to resist it the next, beginning the ritual that so frustrated his young intern. And why? "He stopped her before he ejaculated," as the report puts it, because, Lewinsky testified, "he didn't know me well enough." Some things are just too intimate for strangers to share...
...future undoubtedly harbors plenty of monsters, hidden from us now and waiting; at the moment, the monsters we see are chimeras of our uncertainty and disgust. But we know enough to make educated projections...