Have you been 'Bill Clintonned'?

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">LONDON: Bill Clinton, the noun, already exists in Microsoft’s Encarta Dictionary. By Tuesday morning, bang in the centre of the world’s literary capital, being “Bill Clintoned� had become an ecstatic verb.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">Like Lewinsky and long before her, Little Rock, London is pliantly submitting to the hurried, expert embrace of the greatest comeback kid in modern politics, as the world’s most powerful man (retired) finishes the first half of a remarkable four-country European book tour.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">At one stroke, the new verb ‘Bill Clintonned’ was seen to embody that fabulous mix adored by a world drunk on an extraordinary cocktail - celebrity and politics; shame and sex appeal; money and moral triangulation.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">According to at least one cynical commentator, the verb describes a person who is seen walking away from Europe’s largest bookstore carrying a large book weighing four pounds, wearing a dreamy smile and sporting a deep cerise flush running down their necks.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">Late on Monday, thousands of British queue-junkies and delirious members of the 42nd American President’s Fan Club could count themselves well and truly ‘Bill Clintonned’.</span><br /><br /></div> <div align="center" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center" border="1" width="70.6%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" white=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" color:="" ba0000="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Also read:</span><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:=""> </span><a href="http://people.indiatimes.com/articleshow/753652.cms" target="_blank" style="" font-size:10ptfont-family:arialfont-weight:boldcolor:000000="">Excerpts From Clinton''s ''My Life''</a><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:=""> </span><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" color:="" ba0000="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">TALKING POINT: </span><a href="http://people.indiatimes.com/articleshow/753674.cms" target="_blank" style="" font-size:10ptfont-family:arialfont-weight:boldcolor:000000="">Are You A Bill Clinton Admirer?</a></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:=""> ‘Bubba’ Bill’s 957-page, three-week-old publisher’s dream is baldly titled “My Life�, has been panned by British and American reviewers and memorably described in one early adjective as “eye-crossingly dull�.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">And yet, with Clinton personally glad-handling man, woman and child; expertly shaking hands with his right hand and signing copies with his left; the autobiography has been drawing the sort of ecstatic attention across Europe as J.K.Rowling got for Harry Potter V.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:=""> Clinton, bound for Amsterdam tomorrow (Thursday) and Paris soon after, is already being hailed by Bush-phobic Europeans as the kind of American leader they like best – the one who went to Oxford and displays an almost Gallic attitude to sexual matters.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:=""> Flying into London on his private jet early on Monday, Clinton shook off his marginally less-exciting, first staging post of the European book tour – Berlin.As he arrived at central London’s Waterstones, the ‘Old World’s’ largest bookshop, bemused observers reported the queues stretching down the street as far as the eye could see, snaking round the corner and further on still.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">So continued a hastily-begun, wham-bam love affair between two unlikely beings - the man who made the Oval Office famous as a lecherous locale and London, which briefly became a city willing to love publicly and passionately and pay nearly 22-pounds-per-head for the pleasure of being serviced by Bill Clinton</span></div> </div>