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The Washington Post lead reports that Clinton's top political advisors have reached virtually unanimous agreement that he must say more publicly about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a tack so far resisted by the First Family.
One can imagine a watery planet with small sail boats, sails, and tillers trimmed to tack forever on a left tack, forever circling the everywhere ocean.
Her Anna is such a cauldron of unresolved impulses--rage, petulance, fear, deceptiveness, promiscuity--that it's no wonder that the filmmakers had to tack on a corny, too-pat coda that spells out the couple's happily-ever-afterhood.
But the NYT lead editorial still sees plenty of controversy, calling the tack a "dodge" and describing as "stonewalling" Clinton's refusal to straight-off cooperate with Starr's "reasonable requests for information in a legitimate criminal inquiry."
The etymological game being what it is--( requiescat in ) pace John Ciardi--I fully expect someone to come up with an origin for cute as a button that identifies it with the six adorable daughters of some 17th-century Londoner named Button or, just to make it more complicated, a corruption of the expression *acute as a bouton in which bouton means `stud with a sharp point'--in other words, originally equivalent to sharp as a tack .