Word: wonk
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...Strobe, Clinton gains a fellow wonk, someone with whom he can continue to talk about the mysteries of this nation's superpower rival. "He always had a voracious curiosity about the Soviet empire and the problems it posed to the world," says Strobe. "And I always suspected that it was in part because he hoped that one day he would be dealing with them." TIME will miss Strobe, but our loss will be the country's gain...
Bill Clinton has also been known to party hearty, but in his soul he may be a wonk. He is no more afraid to be square in his musical taste (his favorite sax player -- Kenny G?) than Maya Angelou was to be passionate, politically correct and perfectly understood in her Inaugural Day poem. At 13 balls that night, Clinton was like the college grind who drops in on frat bashes the night before the exam to show he's one of the guys, then sneaks back to his dorm to cram. Perhaps there is as much Nixon...
...Sullivan's version, the man mistaken for an inspector is actually a computer wonk turned would-be actor. Aggressively talentless, he is nonetheless welcomed into the panicky troupe and cast as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The play's finale, a catastrophic Christmas Carol that is the funniest scene on any American stage this year, echoes the uproarious mangling of Romeo and Juliet in Nicholas Nickleby. Props and gimmicks fail. The set collapses. One actor forgets all his lines in terror. And Tiny Tim, played all through rehearsals by a plump pubescent brat who has held the role...
...flight attendant announced, "The flying time to Little Rock is . . ." Cheers filled the plane. Then she corrected, "I'm sorry, it's Albuquerque." In the front of the plane, Clinton, the late-night policy wonk, was actually talking to aides about converting cars to natural...
Carter and Clinton, both of whom ran as mixtures of policy wonk and spiritual redeemer, were obscure governors of Southern states before launching their equally improbable bids for the presidency...