Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate. Says Buck Harvey, 23, editor of the University of Texas' Daily Texan: "Journalism is one of the few professions that require integrity. The pay is small. But that doesn't bother me, because you don't have to put up a facade." Prior to the scandal, the old images of tough muckrakers and dashing foreign correspondents had faded. Now some of the glamour is back. Says Richard Petrow, dean of New York University's program: "When Robert Redford plays the lead in a movie about two reporters, you know something is happening." What is happening...
...refracted trauma at having discovered two skeletons in his father's closet. And the story, with its pivotal heroine, its deferentially anonymous references to European nobility, its global crisis in the offing, and even its fixation on the "points" of a railroad track, emerges as a hybrid of "A Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Adventure of the Bruce Partington Plans" and "The Adventure of the Second Stain...
Since Richard M. Nixon lost the support of Congress after the Watergate scandal, Fonda said, the Indochina Peace Campaign (IPC), a grassroots organization to which she belongs, persuaded Congress last fall to cut $474 million from Nixon's military aid request for Saigon and Laos...
...more likely choice is Tian Van Lam, the young president of the Saigon Senate known chiefly for his eloquence at the Paris talks, as well as for such gallantries as attending to the cape of NLF negotiators Madame Binh. Lam is also conspicuously untouched by any hint of scandal. He was made president of the senate soon after his election and enjoys connections with several international firms. In the event Thieu resigns, his Cabinet must resign with him, and by Vietnamese law the head of the senate becomes president...
...Dukakis attempt to make a political scandal out of a $40,000 loan to Sargent from his wife flopped. Sargent passed it off as a joke and the press has generally condemned Dukakis's charge as scandal-mongering...