This Orwellian idea begs for us to see Clinton as Mildred Ratched, the control-freak nurse in One Flew Over the Cuckoo?s Nest.

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But he comes over as a cold control-freak.

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Her control-freak ways have helped ensure her an income of millions of dollars, even if her acting services end up in less demand in Hollywood, where a star's aging is the most unforgivable of sins.

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Really, though, we should all embrace the grey area and not just because philosophically it's a good, healthy place to be. (I used to describe myself as black-and-white until I realized it was shorthand for difficult control-freak.) Americans have been doing it for years.

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Rodgers, a star of the 1980s, who is such a snorting-bull control freak that he's become a self-caricature.

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MPs in the Commons, the conduct of the annual conference, elections to the National Executive Committee, the promotion of a closed-list system for the Euro-elections have pointed the control freak's way.

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The Streisand that emerges is an odd control freak, a damaged, needy and out-of-touch woman and yet very human.

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The control freak's desire to be successful is strong, but it comes with a lot of self-inflicted pressure.

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