Word: wackos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SUNDAY 11:45 A.M. Kim Hunter is back at her husband's side in surgical ICU. He is earnestly retelling the story of his encounter with an angel, which Tuttle has heard. "Sometimes this immunosuppression stuff makes you wacko," she confides, then adds quickly, "but some of this is interesting...
WASHINGTON: Kathleen Willey is talking again. The former Democratic volunteer, who has gone into hiding since her "60 Minutes" interview last Sunday, broke her weeklong vow of silence to complain to Newsweek that the White House was "trying to make me look like a wacko." Of those letters she wrote to President Clinton after the alleged groping incident, she said: "I had made a decision that I was going to put that incident behind me... I'm allowed to make that choice...
Warning: the following is a hypothesis based on a scrap of hearsay occurring within an allegation, and if one finds it wacko, so be it. But it seems to me that something is painfully true at the heart of the leaked White House claim, quickly denied, that there was an "emotional bond" between President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. This is not to say that there was no sexual relationship, or that the phrase was not a concoction to get him off the hook, or that he ought to be off the hook...
...painted her as a Republican eavesdropper, Tripp was in fact nonpartisan, a registered independent. And criticism of her comes from both sides. A former associate White House counsel for Clinton says one of the office's biggest mistakes was not getting rid of Tripp sooner. "She's a complete wacko. She was imperial. You couldn't get any work out of her. She wasn't collegial," he says. Many remember her frequent gab-session cigarette breaks. Says a Bush White House official: "[Tripp] always wanted to know where the dirt was, some controversial things...
...extraterrestrial colic. Rewording may be necessary. Example: "Who do I have to fuck around here to get off this ship?" or the old-school misogynistic refrain recontextualized "Must be a chick thing." File under sub-heading The Role of the Quotidian, such as someone chased by a fanged wacko but getting horribly frightened...by a spider...