Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since the confessionalist camp advises truth telling rather than continued lying (though truth telling of a manipulative kind), I think that option deserves deeper exploration. The confessionalists have not made their case with sufficient imagination, envisioning only one way for Clinton to confess--staring at a camera in the Oval Office, reading a TelePrompTer. The dramaturgy is flat. Even Richard Nixon in his 1952 Checkers speech--the prototype of aggressive self-defense through televised "confession"--used poor Pat as a studio prop and, of course, conjured up the adorable, absent...
...mother urged. "It will be worse if I find out from the security guards or other parents." So I fessed up to that heady, behind-the-wheel spin from rows A to N. It's possible things would have been worse if an independent counsel had forced the truth out of me. But for copping to that escapade willingly, I wasn't allowed to get my learner's permit until...
...bloated status envy that goes with the plushier forms of American motoring. Bike manufacturers have gone to inordinate lengths to make bikes seem respectable. "You meet the nicest people on a Honda" was the message of a brilliantly devised advertising campaign in the 1950s designed to counter the undoubted truth that you met some of the nastiest ones on a Harley or (as in The Wild One) a Triumph 650. But in essence, bikes aren't respectable; and at heart, you wouldn't want them if they were...
Neither do Callie Marie Johnson and Rebecca Chittum. When nature and nurture collide, it's only the adults who require assistance sorting things out. But the truth is, in the nanosecond before the sides square off in these divide-the-baby cases, yanking our sympathies one way or another, even we know who the parents are. Instinctively, we know that no child truly benefits from a shattering of his universe. (Remember Kimberly Mays? Her five-year switched-at-birth nightmare left her, for a time, despising both sets of parents.) We want to believe, as King Solomon did, that real...
...coquette/tramp, played with appropriate feminine deviltry by Cybill Shepherd (who never looked so good -- just ask Bogdanovich, who did a May-December bit of his own with Cybill during the shoot and after). And of course the mantra, inserted early on by John Keats via John Hillerman: "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." The grand jury knows. But they ain't talking...