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"Gushing About Someone Gush-Worthy for a Change"

Posted Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2001, at 4:05 PM ET

Dear James,

I don't mind people going on about Katharine Graham--it's refreshing to have the media gushing about someone gush-worthy for a change. But Clinton invokes her name as a kind of shorthand for "classy and serious," which are two things, I'll bet dollars to doughnuts, his creepy little memoir will not be.

Hey, tomorrow George Bush is going to build a Habitat for Humanity house. Yay!

Zoë

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"Gushing About Someone Gush-Worthy for a Change"

Posted Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2001, at 4:05 PM ET
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Zoë Heller is a columnist for the London Daily Telegraph and author of the novel Everything You Know. James Wolcott is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and author of the novel The Catsitters.
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