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...story with no shortage of lurid details, news that Monica Lewinsky may have kept a dress stained from sex with President Clinton was in a class by itself. For fans of the prurient, it offered the tale of a woman so smitten by a sexual encounter that she vowed to keep the most unseemly of souvenirs. For the prosecution-minded, it promised hard DNA evidence. And for those hoping to see the powerful humbled, it introduced a pulse-racing new phrase: presidential semen. "Monica's Love Dress," as the New York Post dubbed it, fast became a staple of water...
...deal with Clinton in 1992 (we'll let the Gennifer Flowers thing slide, that was Arkansas, and you're a big boy now: just don't do it again), he may have so unrepentantly and blithely and cynically--and maybe pathologically--persisted. Some Clinton haters indulged in mere prurient dudgeon. But plenty of parents were incensed in a nonpartisan way by the thought that the young woman might have been thus debauched in the house of Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt. Could the President truly have divided his time between worrying about his place in history and corrupting an intern...
...story itself is more prurient than newsworthy, but the issues it elicits transcend the particular details of the Lee household. This newest twist on sex, lies and videotapes highlights the questionable role of the Internet as a purveyor of information...
...this promontory and asked her to point out her house. She gazed about. "I can't see it right now," she said, "but I know it's out there somewhere." The vantage point was turned into a cactus garden whose spines would discourage the feet of the prurient...
...forms--are increasingly being concentrated in the hands of a few corporations who have as their bottom line the bottom line. Profits, baby, are the name of the game. And as Steve Coz, Russell Turiak and even Marty Singer know, sex, drugs, money and all other prurient interests sell. (That's why the seven sins--or was it 364--are sins, because they are attractive.) Journalism students are trained professionals--trained, that is, to serve their master. And what corporation cares about what Harvard has to say other than which building or chair it gets to name after itself...