Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paso federal courtroom testified about charges of mail fraud and conspiracy against West Texan Billie Sol Estes. Then, for another 50 hours, a jury of two women and ten men (four Negroes) considered the fate of the fertilizer king whose vast, partly imaginary agricultural empire caused national scandal last year. Once, the jurors reported that they were deadlocked. But District Judge Robert E. Thomason refused to declare a hung jury, sent the twelve back to their deliberations with the admonition that "some jury, some time, will have to make a decision in this case...
Raymond plays Christy Mahon, the dreamy wanderer whose bloody tale of parricide bewitches every hearer on that lonely and scandal-starved strand. Pegeen clucks over him like a pullet, the Widow Quin sets traps for him, and a bevy-for there is no other word to describe these refugees from some amateurish Pirates of Penzance-of young girls pelt him with phony giggles and surfeit him with breakfasts of duck eggs, fine fat boiled hens, cakes, and pats of butter wrapped in cabbage leaves. Too many cooks can spoil a broth of a boy, and Christy's vanity spurs...
Marshmallow & Mother. Defying Arvey, Daley jumped into a Democratic primary fight against Kennelley and beat him. Then, in the general election campaign, he turned on Republican Candidate Robert Merriam. Merriam charged scandal and corruption in Chicago's Democratic government. Daley, realizing that beneath the brazen Chicagoan exterior beats a heart of marshmallow, watered the citizens' eyes with sentimentality...
...School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, turns a Broadway stage into an 18th century drawing room. John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Geraldine McEwan give of their stylish best to this durable comic classic...
...Harvard's International Forum he created "a minor scandal" when he illustrated a lecture on the "New Wave" by showing Alain Resnais' Night and Fog, the movie about Nazi concentration camps that Ivy Films also presented to the public a few weeks...