Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...having aggressively followed up Paula Jones' accusation against Bill Clinton--the fact, for instance, that it was initially packaged by right-wing Clinton opponents at a time when it would not have been surprising to hear collectors of Clinton atrocities accuse him of having engineered the Black Sox scandal...
...know WIC works," he said. "Funding it at only 60 percent is a scandal...
...force a sharp reexamination of the Citadel's "fourth class system," in which all knobs are subjected to a certain amount of hazing--a system Conroy, Citadel class of '67, described in his book as a "psychic rape." For one thing, even some important alumni are furious about the scandal. "Don't give us heritage and tradition and all that bull___," Hampton Walker, the head of the Citadel's alumni association, told the South Carolina Post and Courier last week, blasting the school's administration. "Do something about the problems." Already, the school has received E-mail from many people...
This was chapter and verse for Picabia too, whose work also caused some scandal at the Armory Show. Picabia returned to New York in 1915, prophesying that the city would soon become the center of modernist effort because its reality had made it the modernist site to beat all others. "Your New York," he told the press, "is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses modern thinking in its architecture, its life, its spirit"--everything but its art, which Dada would supply. This image of the city as social compressor also comes out in Man Ray's neatly epigrammatic...
...Scandal-plagued politicians are not the only objects of Suma Ching Hai's charity. Whenever there is a natural disaster, she is there--with money. She says she has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to victims of the 1993 Mississippi River floods and to survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing. "Before we enter the spiritual world, we are in the mundane world," she says. "If the Buddha isn't a helpful Buddha, he is a boring Buddha. He is a useless Buddha...