Excerpt of Monica Lewinsky’s Essay

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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"

(i) parapet (n)
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parapet
(ii) parapet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapet
(section 5 Parapets in fortification)

(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

(e) Ms Lewinsky remains single.