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Without proof, both possibilities were left to squirm side by side. Either Lewinsky was lying when she swore under oath that she had never had a sexual relationship with the President, or she was lying through the hours of conversations she had with her friend Linda Tripp, who would later betray her, keeping a tape running to spin a web that would catch a President. As each new tape surfaced, each new detail arose, of Secret Service logs showing late-night visits when Hillary was out of town, of presents sent by courier, of a dark dress saved...
...died). Behind all that was the embarrassing feeling that journalism had been swept up in a popular moment that it ought to have dissected or belittled, and so then it did, in an effort to cleanse itself of having dealt with the sort of news that makes reporters squirm--the news of feeling. Yet this is what the response to Diana's death was, and it might have been wiser to take it at face value...
...family drama that seems to be aiming for a Chekhovian blend of humor and pathos, but falls far short of the mark. Its saving grace is solid ensemble acting, with Julianne Moore and "ER" darling Noah Wyle holding their own as the two central characters who make Thanksgiving a squirm with their barely-concealed resentment toward their taciturn and enigmatic father (Roy Scheider). Unfortunately, none of the characters here are given enough depth or dimension to earn any true empathy. --Lynn...
...Through a rigorous study of TFs in at least 25 Core classes, I and my colleagues at the Institute for the Study of Teaching Fellows and Prokaryotic Life have conclusively determined several facts about the life cycle of the common TF. In the larval stage, young TFs-to-be squirm through high schools nationwide, leaving oozing trails of teacher recommendations and bibliographic references in their wakes. Pupating during their undergraduate years, many emerge from their pre-university cocoons as some version of that smarmy first-year in your section who always does the reading and asks...
...Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino's debut as a director, makes audiences squirm with the de-earification of a police officer by bad guy Michael Madsen...