Word: peeping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...census forms, and this year's tax-evasion gap is expected to exceed $100 billion for the first time ever. Faced with the largest financial fiasco in U.S. history -- a savings and loan bailout that could cost up to half a trillion dollars -- American taxpayers have barely uttered a peep. "People don't feel any sense of ownership over the Federal Government," says Democratic pollster Geoffrey Garin. "It isn't them, and it isn't theirs...
...well as anyone in Washington how strong the know-nothing streak in America is and how to focus its rancor -- which is, in essence, what he has done with the National Endowment for the Arts. Only this can explain why thousands of people who don't utter a peep when the President pulls billions from their wallets to bail out crooks and incompetents in the savings and loan industry start baying for the abolition of an agency that indirectly gave $30,000 to a now dead photographer. When Robert Mapplethorpe, that much overrated lensman, posed with a bullwhip stuck like...
...been little protest against the hard- shell moral conservatism that has dominated Cincinnati for 30 years. The Queen City was a spawning ground for the national antiabortion movement and is the headquarters for the National Coalition Against Pornography. It has managed to purge from its streets the sex shops, peep shows, X-rated films and nude-dancing clubs that mar many major cities. Cincinnati has banned or otherwise hounded out of town the musical Oh! Calcutta! and such films as Vixen, Last Tango in Paris and The Last Temptation of Christ...