Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Giorgione show. A Self Portrait, originally called "unquestionably an original," became "probably" one. A Masculine Portrait now became "probably" Titian's; a Pieta, "tenably" the work of Titian's little-known brother, Francesco Vecellio. In Rome, one art authority snorted: "The Giorgione show is a scandal. It's costing everyone connected with it face." A more serious problem facing an art market already overloaded with fake Giorgiones was pointed out by Turin University's Anna Maria Brizio: "Unfortunately, there is in the show more than one picture which fails to meet the indispensable minimum level...
Angles Again. After the Avalanche, there wasn't much left of Frank Sinatra. He was down from 132 to 118 lbs., his voice was shot, his record sales had practically stopped. His relations with the press were in shreds. Church groups were fighting him because of all the scandal. The Government was after him for $110,000 in back taxes. "Anyone know of a bigger bore just now," the Daily News inquired, "than Frank Sinatra?" Frankie, said the boys in Toots Shor's and in Chasen's, was done...
...cutie. I don't think Eisenhower is half as cute as Dewey. His strength is in being folksy, homey, and that puts a little different light on beating him, but essentially the situations are the same. Now Dewey was a master at looking good. If there was a scandal in his administration, he investigated the Democratic Party-and got away with it. That State Crime Commission stuff-all directed at me, don't kid yourself . . . O.K., what could...
...Shivers managed election to an unprecedented third term as governor, but the going was not easy. A ripe array of administrative scandals have erupted, e.g., the Houston grain scandal and the veterans' land mess (see-below). Although none of these implicated the governor personally, they were laid at his door. And at the start of his seventh year as governor, lanky Allan Shivers finds himself in the awkward role of the man who came to dinner. As one Dallas Democrat put it: "He's stayed too damn long...
...conviction of Bascom Giles is only the beginning of the scandals trouble for Texas politicians. So far, 21 people, including Democratic Congressman John J. Bell, have been indicted. Governor Shivers and Attorney General Shepperd have been rebuked by a state senate investigating committee for negligence and, no doubt, will feel the scandal's sting politically. As for Bascom Giles, he will go on trial again Aug. 15 in San Antonio for taking a $30,000 bribe, and still faces three other indictments charging him with taking bribes totaling...