Word: embarrassing
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...derivative his act really is. After he and his entourage reportedly trashed their rooms last week at the Sheraton in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., one of the hotel manager's chief gripes was that Manson had stained the bathroom sinks with hair dye. That's the sort of complaint that would embarrass New Kids on the Block, let alone a rocker like Marilyn. And what of a claim a few days later that Manson ordered his bodyguards to beat up Spin magazine editor Craig Marks? Seems the same move had been tried weeks earlier by a rap producer and three friends...
...other hand, Hyde's list could easily be spun as a highly partisan attempt to embarrass the President, if not a verbal witch hunt. As aides may point out, Clinton has already answered many of the questions in his last two depositions. Some of them go beyond the scope of Starr?s report -- to ask about White House gumshoe Terry Lezner, for example. The list is highly repetitious -- some might say petty -- and contains mistakes that would shame a county lawyer. "Do you admit or deny that on or about Dec. 28, 1998 ?" begins one query. Nevertheless, it would...
...Full stems not simply from its reportorial accuracy; there is also the extraordinary sympathy Wolfe generates for his characters, particularly Charlie, Conrad and the abandoned Martha. Sympathy was a quality in short supply in much of Wolfe's early journalism, in which he allowed his subjects to embarrass or hang themselves through their meticulously quoted words. Witness Radical Chic, Wolfe's witheringly objective account of a 1970 fund-raising party for the Black Panthers held in the exquisite Manhattan apartment of the composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia, during which the journalist detailed both the revolutionary rhetoric...
...Jones. At the hypotenuse is Linda Tripp, the go-between who first alerted Starr to Monica Lewinsky's false affidavit in the Jones case. Around this triangle is a circle, a group of loosely affiliated Clinton haters who fostered ties among the inner threesome, always looking for ways to embarrass Clinton...
...matter. Now that Congress has launched an impeachment inquiry, the prospect of Monica Lewinsky's testifying in face-flushing detail before the 37-member committee is all but inevitable. Having lost last week's battle over the launch of the impeachment process, many Democrats relish the chance to embarrass the G.O.P. by forcing the committee to interrogate Lewinsky and a host of other marquee players in televised hearings. "Nobody wants to do that," said Henry Hyde, the Republican chairman of the committee, when asked about having Lewinsky testify. "Even the Democrats will think twice about calling witnesses that they...