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3) L'affaire Lewinsky is the superior drama: "Nobody writes better scripts than Washington, D.C." (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). Sidebar: Hollywood reporters say Universal Studios is panicking over when to release Mike Nichols' adaptation of the Clinton satire Primary Colors , currently due out in March.
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.
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.
( L'affaire Fleet Center occurred after the Taylor family sold the Globe to the New York Times .)
Her father was a parvenu who used to be a bon vivant and the enfant terrible of his clique but became a laissez-faire entrepreneur in the entrepôt business and then accepted a post as a chargé d'affaires, which entitled him to a UN laissez-passer, (working to improve detente, and rapprochement with the ancien régime), though he remained a bit of a roué, having an affaire with the au pair.