Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scandal-ridden, corrupt Administration that does not deserve four more years in public life...
...people apparently don't take their lead from the media. They were still looking for the beef, and didn't know the new spin was, "Where's the mud?" Like jurors who take their responsibility seriously, they were unwilling to pick up on Dole's three early forays into scandal land, even at the cost of forgoing 30 seconds of sound-bite fame...
...those willing to test the boundaries of conventional faith, find mysterious in the most profound and troubling sense. Jack Miles, author of the arresting God: A Biography, has written, "Much that the Bible says about him is rarely preached from the pulpit because, examined too closely, it becomes a scandal." By way of proof Miles cites the Flood in Genesis 8, wherein the Deity obliterates most of the creation he had termed "very good" only pages earlier, because of a trespass on rules that skeptics contend he has not yet stated. In chapter 22, in a passage that stands with...
Undeterred by the minor literary scandal that ensued and obviously a sucker for a rattling good (if wildly improbable) yarn, writer-director Barry Levinson proceeded with his screen adaptation of the story. In doing what a filmmaker must do--strip a book to its narrative essence--he has perhaps resolved whatever controversy may still cling to Carcaterra's work. We now see clearly that the author's primary source wasn't life but movies...
...Washington these days, there's a feeling of political deja vu. The time: 1972. The candidates: George McGovern and Richard Nixon. President Nixon was headed for a landslide re-election. McGovern was assailing the President on ethics and trying to get some traction on a little-known scandal called Watergate...