Word: tripp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although there's a little new dirt dished with each successive document dump, the guests remain true to character, such as it is, with some texture added. There's lots of texture in the latest data dump. For example, Linda Tripp, as far back as 1994, was the employee from hell. Her new supervisor at the Pentagon wrote a memo noting how disruptive her "best defense is a good offense" tactic was; how she complained about her duties, her office, her parking space; how she was nasty to her co-workers and sent out a constant barrage of e-mail...
...would a fortysomething like Linda tolerate the prattle of a twentysomething as banal and needy as Monica? Well, they were both fat girls with hair and work problems, and Tripp liked hearing awful things about Clinton, whom she despised and wanted to write a book about. By turns manipulative and sympathetic to the heartbroken Lewinsky, Tripp at one point wants to kick certain presidential body parts and "flatten [them] into little pancakes so he can never use them again." She presses Monica to hold out for "a kick-ass job." She slams Currie for her "sheer stupidity" in not helping...
...first show, featured a Linda Tripp impersonator, identified as a "big fat snitch...
True evil vs. pathetic misbehavior: the Lewinsky coverage unfolds in a drearily gamy continuum; prime cuts and messy chitterlings from the abattoirs of Starr, Tripp & Drudge get mass-packaged in clingwrap and cardboard for the gaudy supermarkets of the information...
GIRLFRIEND! THE WIT AND WISDOM OF LINDA TRIPP...