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...parties for everyone from the Cabinet to the cleaning crew, parties so emotional that even Ironman John Podesta puddled up, it came down to saying goodbye to the household staff, which was rumored to have resented the Clintons since Day One. But everyone cried, even Hillary. She hugged one steward so long they segued into a waltz. Clinton gave them all his usual body slam. Another steward said, "I'm really going to miss you, but I hear the next people go to bed at nine...
...legislator. Since then, he has spent a day a month working such jobs as teacher, Winn-Dixie bag boy, construction worker (see left) and horse-stable pooper scooper ("I kept the ring clear, so that people weren't odoriferously impacted," he reports). For his gig as a US Airways steward, Graham is boning up on his safety speech and his mixed drinks. "Of course, we'll be encouraging everyone to drink orange juice," he says...
...Interior secretary, essentially the nation's park steward and the person who'll have a lot to say about where the derricks go, it's Gale Norton, who served as Colorado's attorney general for eight years and is an Interior and Agriculture vet from earlier GOP administrations. That's she's from one of those red states out in the untamed west is no surprise; that she's not Slade Gorton, the departing senator from Microsoftland who has made more enemies among American Indians than Bruce Babbit ever dreamed of, should reduce the controversy factor considerably. Very Bush...
...wealthy Athenian merchant, spreads his seemingly limitless riches among his friends and lavishes penniless Athenian artists with his patronage. He has no ulterior motive: he is simply a kind and generous soul who lives, unconsciously, far beyond his considerable means. His life becomes full of complication once the steward Flavius reveals that Timon's estate is mortgaged to the hilt. As the news leaks out, creditors begin to hound the generous merchant. Timon is forced to appeal to his friends, who, predictably, refuse...
...While the minimal use of costumes and lines seems to indicate the former, the final scene between Timon and the steward Flavius draws heavily on the gender difference between the two actors. The Athenian context makes this scene stand out for its sexual overtones, and had the director's intent been more explicit, it would have provided for a very original interpretation of the Shakespearean drama...