Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CALL in the Catholic Church. Call in the National Guard. It's perhaps the most absurd statement by a college administrator in what is undoubtably the most absurd administrative scandal of the decade--Boston University's 11 o'clock parietal rules. When asked how students' sexual activity would be affected by the rules, B.U. Dean of Students Ron Carter said, "Students can have sex before 11:00 p.m. and after that they can play with themselves...
...elected Giamatti commissioner may not fully understand what they have wrought. Superficially, Bart resembles the six previous commissioners, dating back to the original, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, that craggy plinth of probity who was recruited by the owners in 1920 to restore baseball's integrity after the "Black Sox" scandal during the previous fall's World Series. Like them all, Giamatti believes in healthy profits and baseball's privileged place high above such mundane matters as antitrust regulations...
...came only 48 hours after his wife hit him over the head with a political frying pan by issuing a statement blaming "those circles who have been in close contact with him" for his illness. The divorce is seen as an effort by the Prime Minister to put the scandal behind him before next year's national elections...
...Chicago, 1919, Eight Men Out retells the true story of baseball's most embarrassing moment, the infamous Black Sox scandal. In the fall of 1919, eight members the Chicago White Sox, considered by many to be one of the best teams ever, conspired with gamblers to throw the World Series to the Cinncinati Reds. Although the eight players were acquitted in a court of law, baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned them from ever playing major league baseball again...
Unlike Bull Durham, Eight Men Out is a true baseball film. Although it may go too far in attributing Frank Capra-esque traits to baseball, the movie does attempt to present the sport the way it should be, as an integral part of American culture. When news of the scandal becomes public, Chicago is in shock. The possibility of actual players, the immortal heroes of the city, sacrificing their talent for a few quick bucks is unthinkable in the untarnished world of baseball. Yet Sayles succeeds in bringing his point across. Innocence will always tarnish, whether it be love...