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t raised many questions as to why Mrs. Thomas did what she did. It also resurrected the sordid controversy of her husband's appointment to the US Supreme Court.

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Anita Hill has suggested that Mrs. Thomas felt Hill was secretly in love with her husband and, thus, that she had fabricated her testimony about sexual harassment, pornographic movie references and pubic-hairs-in-Coke-can jokes all out of pique and jealousy. Hill's response to this notion is basically: you gotta be kidding.

The phone call story brings back images like the high stacks of Playboy and Penthouse magazines one witness said were piled up in Mr. Thomas' bachelor apartment.

As to the plausibility of Anita Hill's testimony, the phone call story brought out Lillian McEwen, a retired administrative law judge who had dated Clarence Thomas in the 1980s. She told The Washington Post this:

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