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Editor's Note: Michael Isikoff's Uncovering Clinton recounts the events of Flytrap from the perspective of a reporter who in investigating the story became a key player in it, since news that his article might appear in Newsweek precipitated Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's hurried investigation into President Clinton's dalliance with Monica Lewinsky.
Jones' evidence, which I detail in a 15,000-word article in the current issue of the American Lawyer , includes clear proof, scattered through the public record, that then-governor Clinton's state trooper-bodyguard interrupted the then-24-year-old state employee on the job on May 8, 1991, and took her to meet Clinton--the boss of Jones' boss--alone in an upstairs suite in a Little Rock hotel, for the apparent purpose of sexual dalliance.
In this context, it's not clear whether the writer or the subject appreciates the irony of the profile's key scene--Spielberg fatuously defending the behavior of his close personal friend Bill Clinton ("Morality is defined not just by a sexual dalliance") as he puffs contentedly on a cigar.
The collective implication is that Bauer's denials must have been couched to protect some unspecified kind of dalliance.
Flirt (Gk. phlért ) is no longer a person who indulges in harmless dalliance but a lover, male or female or the love affair itself (more often than not, illicit); hula hoop means leotards; nylon is the transparent kind of plastic; shocking, used as a plural noun (Gk. sókin ), means off-color or risqué stories; and Texas , as in the sentence, It has become texas, means out of control, maniacally chaotic and violent (though this may be an idiosyncratic use by a small group of people).
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