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...happened to be the leader of the free world. While Clinton's lawyers thunder that the endless tawdry details serve no purpose but to "humiliate the President and force him from office," Starr argues that Clinton himself made them necessary. Starr's office had originally planned to confine the seamier material to a secret sex appendix, a Starr ally told TIME. But because the President lied so long and hard, the report maintains, Starr had no choice but to include the particulars that proved that, despite Clinton's parsing of the term and even by the tortuous definition used...
...lived out all the vagaries of celebrity, knew their value as well as their curse and could manage the trade-off, although he insisted on certain terms and boundaries. He dismissed purveyors of some of the seamier press gossip about him as "pimps and whores. Because they can't write their own name to earn a living properly. They got to lean on somebody else." But Sinatra in those years was natural tabloid fodder, doing the clubs with Ava Gardner (wife No. 2) and Juliet Prowse, and courting Mia Farrow, who became, fleetingly, wife No. 3. And scandal, spurious...
...conflicted female supporter of the President's. The Kathleen Willey TV interview shifted my opinion. It now seems clear that independent counsel Kenneth Starr and Bill Clinton have found the perfect match for their seamier sides: Starr's need to play the Grand Inquisitor and Clinton's apparent inability to control his sexual appetite. It is an American tragedy writ large. ANNE S. WAGNER Cheyenne...
...warned RNC head Haley Barbour repeatedly that the Forum should stay clear of foreign money. Barbour never listened, Baroody said, and Baroody eventually resigned in disgust. "I believe that subsequent events have borne out my judgments," said Baroody, "and shown his to be imprudent." Things may get even seamier when Barbour testifies later in the week...
...wanted badly to like this book. For one thing, as life stories of people thrust into the spotlight go, Clark's is an interesting one, full of hard knocks and two tough marriages and professional success and a climactic trial by fire. During the Simpson case, some of the seamier details about her tempestuous relationship with her first husband Gaby, a professional backgammon player, surfaced in the tabloids. Clark explains how hard this hit her: "I was a survivor. I had surmounted my personal difficulties through acts that took considerable initiative and will. In the summer...