Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...profanity that is so disturbing. It's not even the lack of moral indignation. It's the total hypocrisy of the whole affair. This is the man whose platform was "law-and-order." This is the man who criticized the language of Harry Truman. This is the man who vetoed the child-care bill because it would take mothers away from home. This is the man who set himself up as the guardian of home and family, morality and apple pie. He's really no better than the rest...
...normal judicial process; 2) whether he or the courts have final authority over what evidence can be excluded from judicial proceedings on grounds of Executive privilege; 3) whether Executive privilege can be claimed in a criminal case; 4) whether the President had effectively waived privilege in the Watergate affair by his own selective release of evidence; and 5) whether Judge John Sirica's order that Nixon must comply with the Jaworski subpoenas was proper...
Lately Thomas bills his book as "an objective reappraisal of The Senator Joseph McCarthy Affair," which gives us cause for hope; to underline the point, he subtitles it, "A Story Without a Hero." But if you thought that his dispassionate study would strip away the polemics and reveal the historical significance of the political turnaround in mid-twentieth century America, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. Thomas fell into the onion trap; he was so busy stripping away he forgot to leave anything over; and his book, to switch vegetables, has all the force of a squeezed lemon...
...slinky number on the first floor, who is bi. Stone is made to feel unduly stuffy because the sight of his girl (Teresa Graves) with another woman makes him queasy. She sets him straight, though, without ever really getting straight herself. "Remember," she says of their intermittent affair, "we had a deal: no ties...
...racism charge resulted from a newspaper interview in which Dark seemed to be saying that his black and Latino players were "dumb." Dark claimed that he had been misquoted. He seemed to be riding out that storm when the Giant front office discovered that he was openly having an affair with an airline stewardess. In those days, baseball people, like the heroes of old-fashioned westerns, were supposed to be paragons of virtue-at least in public. Dark was soon dismissed. After he was divorced from his wife, he married the stewardess...