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Finally, there was another, more intriguing, factor. When the Lewinsky story broke, Clinton played a dummy hand, sitting out the first 48 hours in shock, while his wife plotted a way out. But this time, if the White House can be believed, Clinton was just plain mad. On Saturday night he and his Camp David houseguests watched The Boxer, a dense drama of personal and political pain in Northern Ireland. Then he got on the phone with the trashman, James Carville, who in 1992 ran the war room and commandeered the phrase "speed kills" to express the belief that when...
...poem is read aloud in a bookstore but no one is around to listen to it (because everyone is off sipping espresso in the cafe or skimming the latest shock-a-minute memoir), does it make a sound? This April--designated National Poetry Month by the Academy of American Poets--might be a good time to ponder that question. More admired in principle than in practice, more respected than read, American poetry has survived the '90s through a combination of benign neglect, accumulated goodwill and a devoted cult of readers who will still be on deck reciting favorite lines should...
WHITE-GLOVE TREATMENT Fully 12% of health workers are allergic to protective latex gloves. You don't want your doctor to be allergic: symptoms can include going into shock...
...remember the thought that began to run through my mind when as I wrestled with the impulse to physically hurt her: it was the shock that all the people who were crowded into that city pool heard this young, white girl call me a nigger. It was a feeling I can only liken to shame. In as much as I can't control the legacy of the white supremacy that girl's skin color allowed her to claim, I couldn't control my initial reaction to her slur. As Toni Morrison writes in Beloved, "The definitions belong to the definers...
...this is Madonna '98, at the close of an exhausted millennium, when shock comes hard, when irony is so overdone it can only be used ironically, when everything has come full circle and the Spice Girls can look and sound the way Madonna did 15 years ago and still be hailed as fresh and fun. So you move on. Madonna is the head of the record label--the aptly named Maverick--that released last year's band of the moment, the electronica-charged act the Prodigy (Maverick is part of Time Warner, the company that owns TIME). It makes sense...