Word: blackguards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bacon image is phony. Through all the scandals that have beclouded D'Amato--his relatives and friends got federally funded houses; his brother got to use D'Amato's Senate office as a lobbyist's suite--many voters have clung to one idea: D'Amato may be a blackguard, but he's their blackguard, grabbing whatever he can for the state. Schumer argues that D'Amato has been bad for New York because he voted to cut funding for schools, hospitals, highways and the environment. When D'Amato holds a press conference to trumpet some pork-barrel item, says Schumer...
...pair need all their wit to thwart the relentlessly scheming Don Rafael. A blackguard worthy of the two Zorros' steel, he's richly realized by Stuart Wilson as a sort of Darth Vader of romance, helplessly embracing its dark side. Long ago he killed Diego's wife, with whom he was in love, and then abducted their daughter to raise as his own. Played in adulthood by the ravishingly beautiful and wonderfully spirited Catherine Zeta- Jones, she is, of course, destined to find both her true father and her true love behind one Zorro mask or another...
...trouble was that the other man arrested was William Leavitt Jr., an unlikely biowarfare blackguard. The father of three owns biomedical labs in Nevada and Germany, but was known mostly for his quiet ways, civic and business responsibility and devout Mormon life-style. Indeed, he appeared confused by the entire incident. Asked at his arraignment if he understood the charges being brought against him, he said, "Not exactly." Leavitt's lawyers said their client and Harris did not possess anthrax but were instead carrying anthrax vaccine and were testing a device that would neutralize bacterial toxins in the human body...
...fled Hungary, Grove and a handful of classmates sang the first, murderously lovely scene of Don Giovanni in a Budapest recital. Grove can't remember if he took the part of the footman Leporello (who beseeches, "Potessi almeno di qua partir!" [I wish I could escape!]) or the blackguard Don Giovanni (who bellows, "Misiero! attendi se vuio morir!" [Wretch, stay if you would die!]) in the performance. He took the Don's advice...
WHAT DO WE KNOW OF the Kennedys? Better to ask: What don't we know? We know, ad infinitum if not ad nauseam, about the blackguard patriarch, the philandering but beloved President and his glamorous wife, their handsome son risen from the ashes of an aimless, if active, life to become a magazine editor. We know of their loves, their losses, their lapses and their favorite dressmakers. Flip through new memoirs by Gore Vidal and Benjamin Bradlee, and there they are again, appearing in vignettes that will be eagerly processed by a curious public...