标题: Excerpt of Monica Lewinsky’s Essay [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 5-7-2014 14:59 标题: Excerpt of Monica Lewinsky’s Essay Exclusive: Monica Lewinsky Writes About Her Affair with President Clinton. Vanity Fair, May 6, 2014. www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/05/monica-lewinsky-speaks
("The full story is available May 8 in the digital editions. The magazine will be on national newsstands and available in an audio edition on May 13")
Note:
(a) This is the excerpt provided by the publisher.
(b) "I’ve decided, finally, to stick my head above the parapet"
(c) “And she requests one correction of Beyoncé, regarding the lyrics to her recent hit ‘Partition’: ‘Thanks, Beyoncé, but if we’re verbing [making a verb from scratch], I think you meant “Bill Clinton’d all on my gown,” not “Monica Lewinsky’d.”’
(i) Partition (song)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_(song)
(2013; The song consists of two parts, titled "Yoncé" and "Partition;" the birth of her [new alter ego Yoncé; section 2 Composition: second half only)
(ii) lyrics www.directlyrics.com/beyonce-partition-lyrics.html
Read Part II only.
(d) “Lewinsky responds to reports made public in February that Hillary Clinton, during the 1990s, had characterized her as a ‘narcissistic loony toon’ in correspondence with close friend Diane Blair.”
(i) loony tune (n; variant: Looney tune; from Looney Tunes, series of short cartoons produced by Warner Brothers 1930–69; First Known Use 1976):
“LOONY” www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loony%20tune
(ii) loony (adj & n; by shortening & alteration from lunatic; First Known Use 1872):
“CRAZY, FOOLISH” www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loony