Word: personal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately for Lewinsky, her talent for winning people's trust was matched by a weakness for bestowing it. Worse, the person she chose to trust the most had a singular gift for eliciting confessions--and filing them away for later use. Playing the experienced mother superior to Lewinsky's bubbly flying nun, Linda Tripp was the ideal repository for the younger woman's schemes and dreams. Once, in the wee hours of the morning, when Tripp was sleeping over at Lewinsky's apartment, Lewinsky was called by the President, she testified, for what may have been a round of phone...
...only person with cause for complaint is the Marcovaldis' daughter Nina, 12. "She feels she has to compete with the turtles for her parents' affection," admits her mother. "We are trying to spend more time with her." That won't be a problem for the turtles, since Neca and Guy have plenty of helpers to nurture the next reptilian generation...
...battle began last April when the federal Department of Health and Human Services proposed a regulation stating in part that decisions about the allocation of organs should "give priority to those whose needs are most urgent." Currently, an organ is offered first to the neediest person in one of 63 organ-procurement areas. If no one in the area qualifies, then it is offered to one of the 11 multistate regions and finally to the rest of the nation...
...this vibrant metropolis will be expressed musically. Beethoven, Strauss (Richard and both Johanns) and Berlioz will be featured on classical programs around the city. At the tall Funkturm, the city's radio tower, swing, pop and disco musicians will entertain an expected 2,250 revelers. (The price tag, per person, is around...
...seethe. "On the surface," Demme notes, "Sethe is stoic, immovable, but inside she's an inferno of emotions. Oprah had to find the exact way to communicate both of these things, and it was great theater every day watching her do it. There were times when Oprah the person would be so overwhelmed with compassion and empathy for Sethe the character that her emotions would take her far away from where Sethe needed to be. As Toni Morrison told me, 'Remember, Jonathan, Oprah cries. Sethe doesn...