Slick Willie: A Fond Farewell

December, 2000

Slick Willie: A Fond FarewellYou may love him or you may hate him, but all of us will miss him when he's gone. His bleary bedroom eyes, his husky, sugary voice, his celerity as he slides between the cerebral and the seductive; weeks from now we will seek out those features, but we will punch the remote in vain. Bill Clinton looms above fin de siècle America as a large and restless giant---part prodigy, part Baby Huey. He is everything we like and loathe about ourselves. Only when he's gone will...