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At nearly four hours, the Oscar ceremony was longer and more predictable than Titanic . Despite the movie's romp to a record-tying 11 awards, the broadcast is still judged "the most entertaining and painless Oscarfest in years" (Tom Shales, the Washington Post ). Credit goes once again to host Billy Crystal for jokes about his own flagging career and l'affaire Lewinsky . On the downside, this year's outfits were deemed boring: less gothic and showing less cleavage than usual.
The NYT editorial page restates its position on l'affaire Lewinsky --Clinton's a jerk, but jerkiness isn't cause for removal from office--and backs Byrd, calling his proposal "a just way to bring this tormented case to a close."
When President Clinton's budget for fiscal year 1999 came out on Feb. 2, we were all engrossed in l'affaire Lewinsky and the spin the White House was putting on it--right-wing conspiracy, executive privilege, Talmudic definitions of adultery, and so on.
This week's obligatory opining on Issue 2-- l'affaire Lewinsky --centers on the upcoming grand jury testimony of Linda Tripp.
The oversight is not the result of an effort to avoid downbeat or offensive sides of Degas, but rather a failure to understand the seismic shift in French society caused by "l'affaire ." Photography and French nationalism were also linked in Degas' mind.