Word: flapped
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...Ever since the Janet Jackson flap, the country has experienced a temporary frenzy about televised propriety. But we are talking here not about a wardrobe malfunction but about representations of the single worst attack ever perpetrated against the U.S. Yet people who reflexively loathe any kind of censorship are inclined to countenance 9/11 self-censorship because the demand comes from the families and the fire fighters who, on this issue, claim to have a higher moral standing...
...felt like a cold war flashback: Britain was riveted by not one but two spy flaps last week, while Russian agents were arrested in Qatar and charged with involvement in an alleged political assassination. First, Prime Minister Tony Blair's government caught flack when prosecutors dropped charges against a former intelligence analyst who had exposed U.S. and British plans to spy on U.N. Security Council members opposed to the Iraq war. Then former Cabinet Minister Clare Short, who resigned in protest after the fall of Baghdad and has been a thorn in Blair's side ever since, declared...
...There was a flap, no question about it,” Gates’ father, William H. Gates Sr., told the Boston Globe in 1998. “My son felt put upon by the Harvard administration’s attitude...
...that Shelton had leaked news of Clark’s ouster to reporter Bradley Graham of the Washington Post. After the leak, Clark said, then-President Bill Clinton and Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen could not have salvaged Clark’s job without sparking an embarrassing public flap with Shelton...
Love is a short novel (though the flap copy reminds us, a trifle touchily, that it's still "major") with a snazzy mystery plot, some energetic sex and flashes of witty banter. ("If this wasn't hell," Christine says of her living arrangements, "it was the lobby.") But why isn't it more fun? Partly because Morrison is so interested in the play of memory and time and point of view that readers have to do a lot of homework just to figure out what's going on. Partly because, like so many master portraitists, Morrison is drawn to ugly...