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Recently, "love" has been redefined to an even further degree of attenuation. In 1957, Webster's Second International Dictionary defined love as "tender and passionate affection for one of the opposite sex." But love is a complex, gritty emotion, not a simple, romantic one. While tenderness and passion may characterize...
His predicament, I think, consists of his being at once a romantic and tragic character, built with enormous energy and prodigious hungers, and a flaw as certain as a gene. As a romantic he is capable of shocking recklessness. The apparently vindicated Gennifer Flowers spoke last week of an incident...
But it doesn't happen just once. Lewinsky is often called to the Oval Office on some official task, only to end up in the same compromised position. Soon Clinton is calling her at night, when he needs a break from the budget or national security issues. The President is...
The visits ended in August after published reports of another woman's romantic encounter with Clinton at the White House. But the president and Lewinsky engaged in frequent phone sex, according to a source with access to the tapes. Lewinsky kept recordings of presidential calls left on her home message...
Granted, Glenn is in such good shape that he's not your average old guy. But shooting him back into space is more than just a medical experiment. As Kluger says, "there's the romantic, emotional, adventerous value ? everything that used to be the stock in trade of the space...