Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media, delivered ostensibly to deify his sister, was not a self-interested attempt to raise himself above the prying eyes of the press. If so, he has not elevated himself high enough, as was proved last week in Cape Town, South Africa, where Spencer found himself exposed in a scandal born long before his sister's untimely death...
...novel, though a much less politically charged one, is the issue of Alida, John's adored girlfriend. She is described time and time again as beautiful, brilliant, and full of personality. She also eludes John's proposals of marriage repeatedly. Then, as suddenly as the radio station scandal arises, she agress to be his wife. One could believe that this is nothing more than Keillor's deus ex machina for the story--she has to say yes eventually, but it has to take a while to build suspense...
...evening, she returned to the forms of the ancien regime, giving a ball for foreign royals: seven Kings, 10 Queens, a grand duke, 26 princes and 27 princesses. The castle itself provided an apt symbol of royal rejuvenation. The Queen famously called 1992--a year of separations, divorce and scandal--her annus horribilis. The emotional low point may have come on Nov. 20, her 45th wedding anniversary, when Windsor Castle caught fire. Now, just in time for the 50th anniversary, the restoration of the castle has been completed. To regild the plaster, 500,000 sheets of gold leaf were used...
...Before calling for an appointment, Reno needs more than what she calls "the great blob": the cloud of apparent improprieties over the '96 Clinton Gore re-election drive which, though bearing the odor of scandal, lacks solid evidence of any one criminal...
...Dollar Dialing Probe Disconnected Janet Reno looks set to hang up on calls for an independent counsel into the White House phone scandal...