Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the hazards of being isolated and uninformed. After Reagan was elected, the Boss traded romantic fantasy for a gritty populism and gave birth to Born in the U.S.A., his heavyweight album about everything from Viet Nam to dying hometowns. In this overlong account, Marsh purveys no dressing-room scandal -- apparently the Boss's only vices are driving fast and staying up late -- but discloses that when Manager Jon Landau suggested during the making of Born that none of the 70 songs Springsteen had written were good enough for a smash single, the Boss snarled, "You want another...
...Tories to victory, resigned as Minister Without Portfolio. Though no reason was given, he reportedly wanted to spend more time with his wife, who was badly injured during a 1984 bombing attack by the Irish Republican Army. Cecil Parkinson, who resigned in 1983 in the midst of a sex scandal (he had fathered his secretary's child), rejoined the Cabinet as Energy Secretary...
...preparation for giving up privacy, learning to cut through ego clinging and fixation. Rinpoche said essentially it was no big deal. He drank a prodigious amount of alcohol, bedded many women, never denied either. It was "enlightened drinking," "enlightened sex." There was never a PTL-style scandal. It was simply The Way. In the end, the official Buddhist-reported cause of death was cardiac arrest and respiratory failure; the unofficial version was cirrhosis. There was no autopsy. Some, nay, many, said he drank a gallon of sake a day. They placed the body in the meditative position, packed...
...coming to an end for Ronald Reagan as it must for all Presidents, and, as is so often the case, the last act is a welter of charges and countercharges, scandal and disillusion. Still, Reagan is fighting, smiling. His standing with his people is edging up a bit. There will be dining and toasting and travel, a just rite of exit. But the power is palpably fading. It is being gathered up in strange little places like Greenfield, Iowa, where the latter-day populist Jesse Jackson tramps through the cornfields, and Campton, N.H., where Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis sounds native...
...that Clines told her that Wilson, Secord, Shackley and Erich von Marbod, a former Defense Department official, were partners with him in Eatsco. Von Marbod, who retired from the Pentagon in 1981 at the same time that the Eatsco inquiry began, has not been implicated in the Iran-contra scandal...