Word: scandalize
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...children's show Blue Peter (producers rejected the winning entry "Cookie" in favor of "Socks") and showing a trailer for the documentary A Year with the Queen with scenes shown out of sequence to suggest (deceptively) that the monarch had stormed out of a photo session. That scandal claimed a number of scalps, including the boss of BBC1, Peter Fincham, who resigned on Oct. 5. Two weeks later, the BBC's director general Mark Thompson announced plans to kill off some 2,500 jobs, mostly in news and factual programming, and to sell the Corporation's iconic West London headquarters...
...chairman of the SEC in 2005, Cox represented California’s 48th district in the House of Representatives, most recently chairing the Committee on Homeland Security. Before that, he served as senior associate counsel to the president from 1986 to 1988, representing Ronald Reagan during the Iran-Contra scandal. While Cox, who received degrees from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School in 1977, said it was “not self-evident” that the incursion of government-controlled firms and funds into capital markets would bring negative results, he said U.S. policy should be based...
...otherwise—absurd. No matter how objectionable James Watson’s personal views are, they have little effect on the profound benefits his research has created for humanity. For that matter, it does not appear that Watson actually stands by his racist remarks. Shortly after the scandal broke, Watson told The Associated Press “I cannot understand how I could have said what I am quoted as having said. There is no scientific basis for such a belief.” The true danger of Watson’s insensitive remarks and his apparent predilection...
...fiction too. It happened to be the prevailing tone of A-list movies of the 40s that lingered through the 50s. Kerr was not some elevated being who allowed herself to be photographed. She was an actress, convincingly playing these roles. And though her career was never marked by scandal, off-camera she could be as earthy as the next mid-century star. "People always think I'm the epitome of the English gentlewoman," she told the Chicago Tribune after she retired, "which just goes to show that things are never quite what they seem...
LARRY CRAIG, Republican Senator from Idaho (right), complaining that former friend Mitt Romney abandoned him after Craig's airport-restroom sex-sting scandal...