Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Miller scored some points by reinforcing North's image as a shredder of documents and deceiver of Congress during the Iran-contra fiasco. But when a reporter asked Miller about his own mental health, he acknowledged a family history of mood disorders. His aides later said Miller consulted a psychiatrist after his father died. North was soon chortling that his opponent's "strategy of character assassination has backfired...
...Prohibition, America's last experiment in outlawing alcohol use, was not only a fiasco, but broke down in exactly the terms I have already discussed. Eliminating alcohol consumption was a failure because, like cigarette smoking, legislative limits only made it more alluring. People felt the essential unfairness of being told how they could live their lives in sacrifice for a greater good, and that unfairness served to make alcohal more appealing than ever...
...heightened performing style that lets audiences feel it's O.K. to be a little distant from the world of the play. Period references have been added, many with a snide edge not found in the original. The devil says he's been busy designing an Edsel, the Ford fiasco that went onto the market two years after the show first opened. When he envisions a gallery of great lovers through history, he mentions FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, a sacred cow when the original show opened, and Hoover's companion and heir Clyde Tolson...
...chief of staff for Hillary Rodham Clinton. The subpoenas followed damaging revelations of briefings between Treasury officials knowledgeable about a federal investigation of the Clintons' role in the Whitewater scandal and White House aides. The departure of Nussbaum, previously criticized for his involvement in the White House travel-office fiasco and the investigation into the death of deputy counsel Vincent Foster, is unlikely to appease Republicans, who have been pressing yet harder for congressional Whitewater hearings...
...secret investigation ensued and the offender was confidentially sent away for a year's leave of absence. The identities and specific circumstances of the case only became public knowledge in 1991--eight years later--when the female professor proudly broke her silence during the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill fiasco...