Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lessen the pressure on Nixon to resign if the Watergate scandal worsens. Having gone through one traumatic resignation, runs the argument, the nation would have less will for a second...
After all, even if Fairbanks did happen to leave Oklahoma before a big football recruiting scandal, one must venerate this public servant--one of the finest I have known--for accepting the coaching job. After all, America couldn't stand the Pats...
...Watergate front. "I was not there to think," as Bernard Barker put it. "I was there to follow orders." Caught in the Democratic National Committee's Watergate offices on that fateful night of June 17, 1972, they all stoically pleaded guilty and trooped off to jail. As the scandal has expanded, they have become its forgotten men: Bernard ("Macho") Barker, 56; Virgilio ("Villo") Gonzalez, 47; Eugenio ("Musculito") Martinez, 51; and Frank Sturgis...
Today, six months into their provisional 40-year sentences, they are filled with indignation, convinced that they, too, were victims of the complex scandal. Exclaims Barker's daughter, Maria-Elena Moffett: "They feel like they have been used, thrown out, ignored, stepped on and left without any hope of justice. They do not want to be lumped together with men like Haldeman and Ehrlichman−those who knew exactly what they were doing. They are little people who thought they were helping fight Communism." As Barker explained to the Ervin committee, he was told that the Democrats had received...
...remembered. "At least it showed some hunks of flesh. Right after that, though, I started in to make a painting on the same subject that was a long way from being naturalistic." It was a way from which no traveler returned. Nude Descending a Staircase was at once the scandal and centerpiece of exhibitions from Paris to New York. The work was no mere rendering of cubist theory. It was mechanistic, sensual and impudent. It held nothing sacred−not even iconoclasts. Thus Nude performed the heroic task of simultaneously galling public, critics and the avantgarde. At the New York...