Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pressures on Arafat from outside were not enough, they coincide with the worst domestic scandal of his tenure as Palestinian Authority chief. Last Friday his entire Cabinet resigned after the elected Legislative Council voted to demand that he dissolve his government and appoint a new one within a month. In the past, Arafat has capriciously ignored the council's resolutions, but the charges of abuse of power are badly undercutting his credibility. Says an Arafat aide: "The resolution left Arafat armless. He can't confront the Israeli measures and policies with a corrupt administration and with no public support...
GAVIN: B.A., Stanford University, 1952; actor in feature films, 1956-81, including Four Girls in Town, 1957; A Time to Love and a Time to Die, 1958; Imitation of Life, 1959; Psycho, Spartacus, Midnight Lace, A Breath of Scandal, 1960; Romanoff and Juliet, Tammy Tell Me True, 1961; Thoroughly Modern Millie, 1967; The Madwoman of Chaillot, 1969; Pussycat Pussycat I Love You, 1970; History of the World, Part I, 1981; special adviser to secretary-general...
...other branches, the corps also discovered it had to begin educating recruits about fundamental values after 22 Marines were implicated in the 1991 Tailhook scandal and a pair were found guilty in the 1995 rape of an Okinawan schoolgirl. Drill instructors and recruits now have long talks on morality and choices. "We're teaching them how to think, rather than telling them what to think,"says Staff Sergeant Steven Manzo, a drill instructor at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island...
...people read his article on the new Internet commerce regulations. Even if you subscribe to a powerbased theory of relative importance, the you-are-where-you-work theory still fails. Bob Dole, who still wields tremendous lobbying power, is now a private-sector lawyer; John Huang, of campaign-finance-scandal fame, was a low-level political appointee at the Commerce Department...
...opened in Santa Fe, N.M., that quiet world she cultivated disappeared in the crush of celebration. The occasion fueled the sort of media blitz--from Le Monde to the Frankfurter Allgemeine to Town & Country--that she experienced again and again in a career that was launched in scandal when she appeared as the tender (and fully exposed) model in the photographs of her lover and later husband Alfred Stieglitz. She advanced that early fame on the sheer power of her painting, her personality and, increasingly, her role as an icon of feminist strength. With the inauguration of the new building...