Word: scandalizer
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...epiphanies of film form and camera work, Kane offers an acute view of American politics that applies today as much as it did then. Like Silvio Berlusconi and Michael Bloomberg, Kane (Welles) is a media magnate who runs for office. Like Mark Foley, he is caught in a sexual scandal just before the election. The brilliant script by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles is about a powerful man's need to be loved by the millions of people whose lives he dominates. And when they jilt him, he rationalizes the rejection by spinning tales of conspiracy. His newspaper runs...
...producer-director, persuaded the powers-that-were to let him shoot in the Senate, which no Hollywood film had done before. That was generous of them, and foolish, since the film (and the Allen Drury novel on which it was based) portrays Washington as almost systemically corrupt. The scandal at the heart of the plot: the news that one Senator had a homosexual relationship. Really, now, who would believe that...
...Republicans retain their advantage in money and, most operatives on both sides agree, the pinpoint sophistication of their turnout operation among a conservative base in which Bush still has nearly 90% approval in most polls. But even Republicans fret their loyalists have been discouraged by the Mark Foley scandal, and can't match the Democrats in passion. That fervor is being fueled by the bare-knuckled veterans who are heading up their House and Senate campaigns--New York Senator Charles Schumer and Chicago Congressman Rahm Emanuel--who have been urging their candidates to punch back at Bush directly on national...
...church and was granted absolution, which doesn't encourage one "to really punish yourself." In a way, that's also true of the visibly squirming Roger Cardinal Mahony, shown in a videotaped deposition as he tries to defend himself (and his church's wealth and power) from the scandal. Whether or not legal consequences derive from it, that footage alone makes Deliver Us from Evil one of the most powerful indictments of hypocrisy in high and trusted places you are ever likely...
Ronald Reagan's Republican revolution vowed fiscal restraint, national security and morality. Today's G.O.P. has brought heavy spending, an apparent spawning ground for terrorists and a sex scandal. Readers debated the party's fortunes and whether our cover image captured its predicament...