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Monica Lewinsky took such obvious delight in regaling us with details of her encounters with her sexual soulmate--her wide eyes crinkling happily, her full mouth struggling vainly against a triumphant grin at the impressive number of times he called--you felt you'd wandered into Lord of the Flies, the female version . What adultless colony did this girl come from?
But I looked all through Africana , hoping vainly they'd spelled his name "MacPherson" or that there was a list of black Pulitzer Prize winners.
And that training still keeps the Miss America pageant in business, despite the occasional minor agitation that vainly urges it to stop the swimsuit competition.
In a series of long interviews with me a year ago (for Worth magazine), I tried, vainly, to get Arthur to tell me how his ideas about increasing returns have encouraged a new strain of economic investigations.
As he tries vainly to cajole the marshal, another newspaper reporter gloats, "He's totally screwed."