Monica Was Desperate And Hated Her Hair

Their relationship was an emotional roller coaster for Lewinsky, and she became depressed as the affair disintegrated; her emotional state was extremely fragile by the time Starr’s prosecutors found her, Walters says. Starr’s people pushed her over the top, Walters says, and made her feel quite desperate. Lewinsky also tells Walters that her mother, Marcia Lewis, tried very hard to get her to break up the relationship. But Lewinsky admits to Walters that her own stubbornness kept her from heeding her mother’s advice.

Lewinsky says she believes that at the start of their relationship, Clinton was genuinely remorseful over the affair. Now, she tells Walters, the man she sees on TV is all politician, sorry only that he got caught.

Lewinsky also talks about how the prosecutors came to know about the cigar escapade. Lewinsky explains that she described the incident to friends who were called before the grand jury. By the time Lewinsky made her appearance, the jurors and prosecutors knew all the salacious details.

Lewinsky has read just about everything written about her in the past year; comments about her weight hurt the most. Still, she’s kept her sense of humor and even repeated jokes about herself to Walters–including one too bawdy to air. To ease the stress, Lewinsky has been knitting, producing scarves for just about everyone she knows.

Lewinsky remains sensitive about her appearance. She hated how her hair (combed forward over her cheeks) looked in the video of her Senate appearance last month. So, Walters says, before their interview was taped, she asked a stylist to slick her hair back. No word on whether the stylist got a scarf as a thank-you.

HISTORYWhat Reagan’s Notes Reveal

Not long after Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, White House aide Richard Darman suggested he keep a diary. Reagan dutifully made notes each evening in a leatherbound volume. After a month, Darman asked to take a look. The entries were spare, says Edmund Morris, Reagan’s official biographer: 11:00 –meeting with Joint Chiefs; 12:00–lunch; 12:30–haircut. Darman gently suggested historians would be more interested in “what’s going through your head.”

Reagan did his best to comply. The result, says Morris, offers valuable insight. Reagan never wrote ill of anyone. After parties, he invariably noted: “great time had by all.” There’s no vanity, no self-doubt–and no reflection, says Morris. Ever the actor measuring a performance, Reagan meticulously recorded the number of times he was interrupted by applause during a speech. “The diary is as lucid on the last day as the first,” says Morris. His biography is due later this year.

HUBBLE’I Don’t Want to Explain This'

Despite NASA’s budget crunch, the agency appears ready to approve an expensive shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope eight months earlier than planned. Two of the telescope’s six gyroscopes have failed; one is ailing and could shut down at any time. Loss of a fourth would not jeopardize the Hubble itself, but would stop the flow of scientific data. “We’ve got a $5 billion asset up there,” says NASA space science chief Edward Weiler. “I don’t want to have to explain to the public why they’re not seeing Hubble pictures once a month.”

THE BUZZCome On, Show Us a Little Legacy

Will we recall President Clinton as a great statesman? A lecher? A rapist? Or all of the above? Clinton himself reportedly obsesses over his place in history. Here’s what everyone else is saying–the collected buzz on the Clinton legacy:

Scandal Boy, Now and Forever

Forget “Third Way” and balanced budgets. Each prez gets remembered for one thing–Johnson: his Great Society; Clinton: his Johnson.

Amorous Ike

He ably helmed years of peace and prosperity–an R-rated Eisenhower.

Little Things Mean … a Little

We’ll recall his micromanagement: school uniforms, teensy tax breaks.

A ’90s Kinda Prez

He’s a tabloid figure for a tabloid decade. An “I feel your pain” guy for the Oprah era. And a wonky technocrat for the cyber age.

She’s All That

Clinton legacy? You must mean Hillary. She’s set to forge a record far weightier than Bill’s.

COOLTough Toons

The show: Cartoon Network’s “The Powerpuff Girls.” The slogan: “Saving the world before bedtime!” Our heroes: Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, chemically engineered badass tots–they nap in kindergarten by day, crush villains by night. Powerpuff Daddy Craig McCracken, who created the cuties for a student film, originally dubbed them “The Whoopass Girls.” With a soundtrack by indie rockers Bis and a grrl-power esthetic (adorable yet dangerous), the Powerpuffs have turned hipster heads. Best villain: Mojo Jojo, an evil monkey who speaks redundantly. Coolest girl: Buttercup, the green-eyed tomboy with the fetching bob.

WHAT’S COOKINGDilbert Hooks Up With a Spicy Mexican Dish

Scott Adams, Dilbert’s creator, has about 150 million readers. Now he wants eaters. Dismayed by the lack of nutrition found in most foods, Adams is launching a line of meatless burritos with all the vitamins you need. Coming to a freezer section near you: the Dilberito.

Sounds odd. But Adams, who has built an empire on the absurdities of corporate life, hopes the Dilberito will show how absurd the food industry is. After he decided to give up meat several years ago (inspired by a bad plate of chicken chow mein), Adams found it hard to get his recommended daily nutritional intake–a vitamin-and-doughnut regimen didn’t cut it. He hired a consultant to find out whether a nutritionally complete, natural food existed. Not really. Could it be developed? Yes, but it would be difficult. Adams decided the project was worth a $1 million investment–and wondered why no one in the food industry had bothered to try it before.

Countless taste-testings later, the Dilberito is in production, and, says Adams, grocers are interested. And guess what? It’s tasty, and even helped fortify a PERI reporter for an afternoon of games at Adams’s house near Oakland, Calif. (scouting report: he’s a punishing table-tennis player, but can be beaten at pool and hoops).

Adams won’t be too disappointed if he sells only a few Dilberitos (about $2.29 each). He at least hopes to embarrass food companies into making a healthier effort. Still, the potential market is huge, he said. “Six billion people, three meals a day. It can get big.”

The DILBERT EMPIRE $200,000,000 in annual revenue, generated by product lines including:

MILLENNIUMThe Future Isn’t What We Foresaw

Scientists promised decades ago that we’d be vacationing in space, zipping around town with rocket packs and popping “meal pills” by the year 2000. Well, time’s running out. The millennium is around the corner, but life still looks more like “The Brady Bunch” than “The Jetsons.” What happened to the future? PERI did a progress check.

SPACE TRAVEL A Seattle company offers the closest thing to civilian space travel–a trip to the edge of the atmosphere.

MONORAIL Disneyland built a futuristic monorail in 1959. Today we still rely on the subway–or gas-guzzling SUVs.

ROBOTS Thought a robot would do the housecleaning by now? Not yet. Scientists are busy domesticating the robodog.

VITAL STATSPerchance to Dream

Have a tough time getting up on cold winter mornings? You’re not alone. A third of Americans want more sleep, about as many as get less than six hours a night. The most tired: parents of teens. Michael J. Weiss

FOODIt’s Spreading!

Peanut Butter & Co. just opened in New York City, and franchisers are already lining up. Here’s a sample of the nutty offerings: Lunchbox Special PB & J. (Mom’s was free!) $5.00 The Elvis PB, honey and bananas, then grilled. $6.00 Peanut Butter BLT PB and bacon. $6.00 Spicy Peanut Butter PB, grilled chicken and pineapple jam $6.00 The Pregnant Lady (Oft requested, but not yet on the menu) Ultimate combo of PB, bologna or ham, mayo and sweet or sour pickles $6.00

TRANSITIONStories of Grace

“I don’t know why God keeps sending me women to write about,” Andre Dubus said, when asked why he, an ex-Marine, wrote so often from a woman’s point of view. Dubus, who died last week at 62, saw the workings of grace in blue-collar Massachusetts–and even in the 1986 car accident that cost him one leg and the use of the other. Being in a wheelchair, he said, “increased my empathy,” and his subsequent work, including the award-winning 1996 short-story collection “Dancing After Hours,” enhanced his reputation as a contemporary classic.

Nuclear Father

He was a modern-day alchemist, achieving what his 17th-century predecessors only dreamed: Glenn Seaborg, who died last week at 86, transmuted nature’s elements. On a stormy night in 1941 he and colleagues sent nuclear particles into a sample of uranium, creating the element plutonium. Seaborg, who shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1951, discovered eight other atomic elements. Element 106 was dubbed “seaborgium” in his honor–the first time an element was named for a living person. A veteran of the Manhattan Project, Seaborg opposed nuclear testing, but was proud of his namesake element. “That,” he said, “lasts forever.”

CONVENTIONAL WISDOMAnother Shoe Edition

C.W. Bill - So who are you, anyway? Tell us before we find out the hard way. Juanita + Old: Talk and nobody will believe you. New: Talks and nobody believes him. Gore - How will you compartmentalize your boss? When Clinton gropes, you pay. GOPs + Old: Impeachment fiasco a political disaster. New: They were just trying to warn us. Match play - Old: Golf’s greatest go head-to-head. New: A couple of nobodies play for a million bucks. Lauryn H. + Grammy sweeper makes even the CW dig hip-hop. And she still lives in New Jersey!

title: “Monica Was Desperate And Hated Her Hair " ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-09” author: “Robert Crowder”

Their relationship was an emotional roller coaster for Lewinsky, and by the time Starr’s prosecutors found her, her emotional state was extremely fragile. Starr’s people, Walters says, made her feel quite desperate. Lewinsky says she believes that at the start of their relationship, Clinton was genuinely remorseful over the affair. Now, she tells Walters, the man she sees on TV is all politician, sorry only that he got caught.

She remains sensitive about her appearance. She hated how her hair looked in the video of her Senate appearance last month. So, Walters says, before their interview was taped, she asked a stylist to slick her hair back.

HOT PURSUITBrio Versus Brawn

Last week Olivetti’s Roberto Colannino continued to woo the much larger Telecom Italia. The former state-owned monopoly is expected to fend off the takeover, but only by reforming itself. Some see a new, business-like Italy taking shape. Maybe, but the country’s still buzzing about what it all means for the wily old power brokers at Mediobanca, who are advising Olivetti. And about what former Olivetti chief Carlo de Benedetti said to Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema before the bid. Hey, this is Italy–still.

HISTORYWhat Reagan’s Notes Reveal

Not long after Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, White House aide Richard Darman suggested he keep a diary. Reagan dutifully made notes each evening in a leatherbound volume. After a month, Darman asked to take a look. The entries were spare, says Edmund Morris, Reagan’s official biographer: 1:00–meeting with Joint Chiefs; 12:00–lunch; 12:30–haircut. Darman gently suggested historians would be more interested in “what’s going through your head.”

DIPLOMACYTalking Turkey

Relations between Greece and Turkey have been on the skids since the capture of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan two weeks ago. But if Turkey has its way, things could get even worse. NEWSWEEK has learned that if Greece does not denounce publicly the PKK and cease its alleged support of the Kurdish militants in coming days, Turkey will launch a worldwide diplomatic campaign against Athens through NATO, the EU, the United States and individual European states. Ankara also plans to punish Greece directly. Measures under consideration include freezing relations and suspending an agreement regulating military flights in disputed airspace over the Aegean Sea. That’s no small matter, especially if Greece sends its Air Force into the contested area. By the end of last week Greece had placed its defense forces on a heightened state of alert.

THE BUZZCome On, Show Us a Little Legacy

Will we recall president Clinton as a great statesman? a lecher? a rapist? Or all of the above? Clinton himself reportedly obsesses over his place in history. Here’s what everyone else is saying–the collected buzz on the Clinton legacy:

Scandal Boy, Now and Forever

Forget “Third Way” and balanced budgets. Each prez gets remembered for one thing–Johnson: his Great Society; Clinton: his Johnson.

Amorous Ike

He ably helmed years of peace and prosperity–an R-rated Eisenhower.

Little Things Mean … a Little

We’ll recall his micromanagement: school uniforms, teensy tax breaks.

A ’90s Kinda Prez

He’s a tabloid figure for a tabloid decade. An “I feel your pain” guy for the Oprah era. And a wonky technocrat for the cyber age.

She’s All That

Clinton legacy? You must mean Hillary. She’s set to forge a record far weightier than Bill’s.

ONLY IN AMERICAIt’s Spreading!

Peanut Butter & Co. just opened in New York City, and franchisers are already lining up. Here’s a sample of the nutty offerings:

Lunchbox Special: PB&J. (Mom’s was free!) $5.00 The Elvis: PB, honey and bananas, then grilled. $6.00 Peanut Butter BLT: PB and bacon. $6.00 Spicy Peanut Butter: PB, grilled chicken and pineapple jam. $6.00 The Pregnany Lady: (Oft requested, but not yet on the menu) Ultimate combo of PB, bologna or ham, mayo and sweet or sour pickles. $6.00

MILLENNIUMThe Future Isn’t What We Foresaw

BRAZILCarnal Carnaval

A shapely dominatrix has ignited the fantasies of Brazilian merchants. Suzana Alves, known as Tiazinha or “Little Aunt,” appears on a wildly popular TV variety show where she uses wax to strip body hair from men who answer trivia questions incorrectly. Last month she made a splash parading in Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval. Now marketers have launched a closetful of Tiazinha consumer goods, like nylons, underwear, lollipops and, of course, depilatory wax. Brazilian Playboy will unmask her in a forthcoming centerfold. The planned press run: a record 1 million copies.