Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...side than to sit her down and tell her the truth. There are people at the heart of the White House who swear up and down that going into this weekend, Hillary Clinton still did not know, really know, the truth about Monica Lewinsky. Such ignorance in a very smart woman, they argue, is born of a mix of decision and denial: an unusual career--the brilliant Yale lawyer who gave up her work to make her husband better at his--and an unusual marriage, in which his serial infidelity was taken for granted by everyone except...
...know them, provide inside reporting about how the Clintons and others came to make their momentous decisions, and offer some well-reasoned analysis by our own reporters and respected thinkers that would shed light on the issues involved. That way, we felt, we might offer a smart harbor amid the gales of punditry now in full force...
Fate, that impish old bitch, has thrown the smart one and the cute one in bed together for the first time. So far, they have been just friends, but now what? The cute one, topless and asleep, rolls over against the smart one, who suddenly dares to hope and grazes his love object with his fingers. A caress leads to a kiss--and then the cutie pie bolts up awake. Comedy! Drama! Horror! And, since the characters are both men, in a scene that stirs a smiling shudder of recognition in viewers straight and gay: Breakthrough...
Kiss and Broadway have identical plots: a smart guy falls for a hunky guy and spends the whole movie waiting to be kissed by him. Even the supporting characters are similar. Whereas straight film romances may feature a wisecracking gay neighbor, the gay movies are about two guys and a chirpy-cynical woman friend--Eve Arden on Fire Island. With their bright colors and show-tune overlay, these films are unapologetically romantic. They're at their most endearing when they attend to the crucial, clumsy negotiations at the beginning of any relationship, and to that old-fashioned movie wallop...
...Starr's few smart soundbites has been to insist that his investigation -- from Whitewater to Monica -- has been about conspiracy, buying silence, and fighting the investigation itself at every turn. And he's not without leads. "Clinton's problems are, with the possible retrieval of gifts, whether he told Monica to lie" and whether he told Betty Currie to lie, says TIME Washington correspondent Michael Weisskopf. "But he may have been able to skirt the line between suggesting something be kept quiet and actually suborning perjury...