Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon returned to the U.S.S.R. just six weeks before he resigned because of the Watergate scandal. "The Soviets knew Nixon was in deep trouble and pulled back," says Hyland. "We left Moscow wondering what was going to happen. We knew a promising relationship was falling apart...
...from other movies-notably It Happened One Night, Morgan!, and Five Easy Pieces-without ever advancing any insights of their own; there are more cute platitudes along Jack's road to self-realization than there are toll booths. The film's final ten minutes are a minor scandal. After wasting an audience's time for two hours, the movie unleashes a gory, cathartic fantasy sequence in which the hero relives the horrors of his Viet Nam combat. Film makers who exploit the tragedy of war to prop up an otherwise listless picture should be ashamed of themselves...
...worst came in the 1920s, though, when post publisher Ned McLean was found to have lied to a Senate committee to help cover up a bribe that his friend, Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, and accepted in the Teapot Dome scandal. From then on The Post went downhill, and McLean went bankrupt. The paper was sold at auction in 1933--and when none of its reporters even bothered to cover the sale, The Post ran an Associated Press account the next...
...permanently crippled by arthritis and other ailments. But Mirando's surgery turned into a permanent nightmare. He was left in constant pain, with a right leg two inches shorter than his left and unable to walk without crutches. Now Mirando's private agony has become a public scandal as well, with possible repercussions for surgeons elsewhere...
...campaign workers in his office that night cited the mayor's stand for rent control and against condominium conversion, instead of an urge to defend his integrity, as motives for supporting him. But other Cambridge politicians are obviously conscious of the possible ill effects of trying to promote the scandal, and it has not become a campaign issue. Cambridge Councilor Walter J. Sullivan, a long-time Vellucci ally who has now turned against the mayor, urging voters not to vote for Vellucci for any of the spots on the City Council, sums up the mood best. "That's a personal...