Word: scandalizer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL How does an author learn to write convincing sex scenes? If she's a romance writer, she can attend a sex-writing class at the Romance Writers of America's annual convention. But what can an aspiring Philip Roth do? Ben Schrank, the author of "Consent" (Random House: March) says that the key to writing persuasive sex scenes is "learning what innuendo means, and knowing what to cut out. Readers will fill in the more provocative details." Schrank, 32, should know...
...friend J.J. forgets to mention that. You see, we furnish him with items." J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster): "Yes, with your clients' names attached. That's the only reason the poor slobs pay you: to see their names in my column all over the world.... [Press agents also] dig up scandal about prominent people and shovel it thin among columnists who give them space." - dialogue from the film "Sweet Smell of Success...
...through March 28. The big screen and clear print lets you see the pockmarks on J.J.'s skin (the harsh lighting that cinematographer James Wong Howe threw on Lancaster makes him look by turns reptilian and leprous), allows you to read the small print on the cover of a scandal magazine called Sensation (the lead story: "Sex in the City"). But the picture looks good in any size. Even the videocassette format provides a feral pleasure, as Howe's camera prowls the New York nighttown like an accomplice. Or a conscience. Or like Sidney, always on the make...
...made it through the House last month. Now the measure goes on to the desk of President Bush, who during his election campaign opposed McCain's push to get the unregulated contributions known as "soft money" out of politics. Now, chastened by the public outcry over the Enron scandal and the perception that politicians might be for sale, Bush let it be known he wouldn't work against the bill's passage, and he's expected to sign...
...last time Congress passed sweeping campaign-finance reform was in 1974, after the Watergate scandal. But the big bucks have long since crept back in. "Any campaign-finance reform law works for a period of time," says Anthony Corrado, a Colby College professor of government. "But it has to be revisited from time to time, or the money will find ways to get back into the system...