Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yankelovich Partners, the President's approval rating was 67%, just one notch below his personal high point in January, after he bounced back from the Monica Lewinsky scandal with an intrepid State of the Union speech. But in the new poll, 52% also believe he has engaged in a pattern of sexual misconduct while President. That means that many of Clinton's supporters also believe he did something like what his accusers say he did. "He's had sexual wanderings," says Bill O'Rourke, 49, a police officer in Minneapolis, Minn. "I don't think it's right...
...sexual interrogation takes on a more ominous cast. By using the testimony of people close to Clinton during his days as Governor--women who claim to have slept with him and state troopers who claim to have shadowed him everywhere--the Jones team tried to demonstrate a historic pattern of inducement and intimidation: rewards for women who cooperated sexually and then kept it quiet; punishments for those who said no or talked about it later. The Jones documents allege that Clinton's longtime allies--aide Bruce Lindsey, former aide Betsey Wright, old friend Skip Rutherford and former security chief Buddy...
...alleged pattern is meant to buttress Jones' claim that after she refused Clinton's sexual advances at Little Rock's Excelsior Hotel in 1991, her career with the state of Arkansas was roadblocked. But the filing may do even more to help explain the leads independent counsel Kenneth Starr is pursuing as he tries to build a broader obstruction case against Clinton in the matter of Monica Lewinsky. For a scandal-weary public trying to make sense of it all, the Clinton depicted in these documents is a chilling character indeed: not the charming rogue of Primary Colors...
Jones' team is employing a legal strategy that most sexual-harassment plaintiffs can't afford--a search through the garbage bin of Clinton's sexual history. Specifically, her lawyers hope to present "a pattern and practice" by the President of sexually harassing other women, bolstering Jones' broader claim of sexual discrimination. (The courts have said such patterns are relevant in discrimination cases.) Jones and her lawyers figured that if they could find as yet undetonated "bimbo eruptions" in Clinton's past, they could show this damning pattern: that again and again Clinton hits on women with less power than...
...narcolepsy are among the much more serious disorders with which his characters are attempting to come to terms. Coe tells a well-constructed story in which the themes of unrequited love, sexual identity, the ups and downs of the film industry and psychotherapy are intricately woven in a pattern that never fully reveals itself and leaves the reader curious to the very end. Despite occasionally questionable choices in symbolism and the awkward development of one leading character, The House of Sleep--ironically enough--makes for a compelling nighttime read...