Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tammy, Jimmy, Jerry, Oral, Pat. With other evangelistic stars beset by scandal, political controversy or organizational woe, the untainted Billy Graham remains America's most admired religious leader. And the most durable. "My schedule is just as heavy as when I was 40," says Graham, who this week reached 70. His 1988 itinerary has featured revival meetings, drop-ins at both U.S. political conventions and breakthrough tours in two Communist lands...
...Another scandal? The chances are slim it could happen here again," declares dentist Warren Randall, eyes fixed on his son Drew, a tackle. "This is history in the making right now." Later, young Randall, between gulps of ice water, agrees: "The problems all went before. We're starting new." Running back Stephen Thomas, a presidential scholar, reflects the new determination. "We can come back. People respect what we're trying to do now," he says. "The legacy of Eric Dickerson and Craig James only has a crack in it. But that will be forgotten...
...Hungary's top soccer clubs have been accused or indicted in the scheme, which involved rigging games for bribes of up to $11,000. On one occasion in April 1986, wives of players on opposing teams passed payments of $1,800 to fix the game just before kickoff. The scandal has reached into soccer's elite: heroes such as Sandor Sallai, a star player, and Kalman Meszoly, former manager of the national team, have been accused of cooking matches. Punishments for those found guilty could range from league suspensions to up to three years in prison...
...miniseries progressed, the focus swung away from politics to the steamy sex scandal of Crane's relationship with Fallon and their tendency towards kinky sexual behavior. Favorite Son provided one of the most explicit sex scenes I've ever seen on television. It features Koslowski, clad in push-up bra and garter belt, perched on the bed as she tries to seduce the FBI agent investigating the case. She produces two ribbons from her bureau and ties them around her wrist, then raises her hand to the bedpost moaning, "Tie me up." Bad politics, it seems, has concomitant vices...
...underestimating the savvy of American viewers by thinking that voters would conflate the outlandish soap operatic hero of Favorite Son with the solidly pedestrian Quayle. Whatever one might think of Quayle as a political thinker, he's an unlikely candidate to be at the center of a kinky sex scandal. As Quayle's wife said, "Anyone who knows Dan knows he would rather play golf than have sex any time...