Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken 55 days of careful feelers, quiet phone calls and very secret meetings to get her lawyers into that Manhattan apartment. It took even more hand holding to get Monica there, given her feelings about the prosecutors who had accosted her in a Virginia hotel six months before. It was no accident that neither Starr himself nor his bulldog lieutenants were in New York last Monday morning. Through the next five hours of dignified conversation, she told the new, kinder and gentler team everything. But it was the way she told them that mattered just as much. "I think they...
Things had gone quiet for a while: a spring adagio after the raucous winter, when minor witnesses came and went and Clinton's approval ratings wafted above it all, as scandal stories fell to a total of only 10 per week on the evening news. The tempo was set largely by the White House. Clinton's lawyers asserted new kinds of executive privilege and then appealed each defeat, and they kept refusing, once, twice, six times, to accept Starr's invitation for Clinton to show up voluntarily to tell his story. Every so often Starr got defiant letters in reply...
...categorical lie. Surely his crook-fingered, squinty-eyed, gravel-voiced denial of sex with "that woman," repeated like a tape loop on TV, looks less persuasive in retrospect. And recall his answer, after the Troopergate story broke, to the straightforward question "So none of this is true?" He was quiet for a full 10 seconds. "I have nothing else to say," he said at last. "We, we did, if, the, the, I, I, the stories are just as they have been said. They're outrageous, and they're not so." More fluent, but just as inept, was this exchange from...
...turn over records of its contacts with the media. The President's lawyer, who had lodged the almost forgotten complaint about leaks last February, had obviously hit pay dirt with Johnson. His motion had all his legal trademarks: it was litigated in secret, was designed to keep Starr quiet, and is a subject about which Kendall will say nothing. Sources tell TIME the appeals court put the matter on hold following the closed-door session, but the episode had clearly escalated the hostilities between Starr and Kendall...
...morning and end with Compline at 7 in the evening. Many say night and day lose their meaning as they enter monkish time. "I come screaming in off the runway," says Joyce Bock, a Santa Barbara, Calif., marriage counselor. "This cools my jets." Most monasteries either ask for complete quiet or at least have silent hours. The idea is that in silence one can't hide from one's problems, or from God. "There's always someone who leaves," says Jack Pannell, a press aide to Georgia Congressman John Lewis and a five-year retreatant. Barbara Carr is a school...