Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prime Minister of Greece, Andreas Papandreou, was caught in a sex scandal with a stewardess. It seems he got her a job on the state TV station and cancelled an appearance at an earthquake site to take a private cruise with...
Both views depend on the same faulty premise: that Sasso made an issue out of Biden's actions. In reality, Sasso's revealing the Delaware Senator as a political Rich Little was intended to make a scandal...
Exaggeration? It is hard to exaggerate the way people caught up in scandal, sensation or fragrant doings can parlay a puddle of notoriety into oceans of money plus exotic life-styles. Culprits do it, victims do it, innocent bystanders do it. Even an ordeal equals opportunity. Rescued in the Yukon, where a 1963 plane crash delivered her to seven weeks of subzero weather, Helen Klaban exulted over a dream come true: "Hey, I'm a celebrity!" Her book, Hey, I'm Alive, duly followed...
Nobody seems to mind, or much notice, run-of-the-scandal trash such as the movie Stripper Fanne Fox made, Posse from Heaven, after she became notorious in 1974 by getting caught at the Tidal Basin with Congressman Wilbur Mills; or The Washington Fringe Benefit, the book put out by nontyping Secretary Elizabeth Ray after the whoop-de-do over her 1976 affair with Ohio Representative Wayne Hays...
...regime, his role in exposing attempts by Rafsanjani to buy arms from the U.S. in exchange for hostages helped seal his fate. After Hashemi's arrest, his supporters leaked details of Rafsanjani's deals with the U.S. to the Beirut magazine ash-Shiraa, thereby precipitating the Iran-contra scandal...