Word: sides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Come fall, Mike McCurry will finally get to slip out the side door after three years of keeping scandal-hounds and Republicans at bay. He's been wanting to leave for a while. "The Lewinsky scandal held him hostage," says Tumulty, "and if it wasn't still hot these days, he'd be out the door tomorrow." As it is, McCurry will spend the next few months preparing his well-regarded protege, deputy press secretary Joe Lockhart, in the fine art of keeping mud off a troubled President -- without getting too much of it on yourself...
...genuinely committed to this problem; at some level, it is where he lives. My own taste would have him talk less like a policy wonk and more like a preacher, but as the panel demonstrated in a confused and awkward way, most of us are on the same side...
Once, when George Bush and President Clinton were seated on either side of the host at one of those dreadful Washington dinners, rescued only by the glorious ring of the Marine Band, Bush leaned over to the host and whispered, "The thing I miss most about the White House is the Marine Band." A moment later, Clinton, from the other side, confided to the same man, "The thing I enjoy most about being President is the Marine Band...
...pair need all their wit to thwart the relentlessly scheming Don Rafael. A blackguard worthy of the two Zorros' steel, he's richly realized by Stuart Wilson as a sort of Darth Vader of romance, helplessly embracing its dark side. Long ago he killed Diego's wife, with whom he was in love, and then abducted their daughter to raise as his own. Played in adulthood by the ravishingly beautiful and wonderfully spirited Catherine Zeta- Jones, she is, of course, destined to find both her true father and her true love behind one Zorro mask or another...
...fair, the magazine is losing less money than it did a few years ago, and Brown has been ill served by blunders and feuding on the business side. In May she was given only a day's notice when a new publisher was brought in; furthermore, it was announced that the magazine's traditional independence was being curtailed and that it would be formally brought under Conde Nast's control, a move Brown opposed and one that meant she would have to deal directly with the company's bombastic president and CEO, Steve Florio...