Word: scandalizing
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...eyes and deeds of three men in their early 40s who have not yet learned that they are out-and-out psychopaths. Pete Bondurant is a former Los Angeles County deputy sheriff who now works for Howard Hughes; Pete's duties include overseeing the staffing of Hush-Hush, a scandal rag Hughes has bought for titillation and political smears, plus procuring drugs for and keeping process servers away from his billionaire boss. One day Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa, who is being hounded by the Senate's McClellan committee and chief counsel Robert Kennedy, calls to offer Pete...
...many modern Catholics, the question of a gay clergy inspires a big shrug. Why shouldn't homosexuals (and women) be priests? These days, they are among the few who want to be. The real issue, blithely dodged in this movie, is the Catholic sin of giving scandal. A priest is, after all, Christ's salesman and stand-in. He need not be infallible--since he is human and conceived in sin-but he'd damn well better be discreet. So it is one thing for old Matthew to keep a woman quietly in the rectory; it is another for young...
When Lieut. Kara Hultgreen was killed last October while flying, many anonymous claims were made that she had not been qualified to pilot the F-14 and that she had been placed as a token pilot in order to improve the image of the navy after the Tailhook scandal. These claims gained such momentum that they spurred her mother to release her training records after her death. The record showed that Lieut. Hultgreen had been third in her F-14 piloting class and above average as a pilot. Soon afterwards the crash was labeled a mechanical failure. All the claims...
...Constitution. According to the Term Limits Legal Institute, approximately 35 of the G.O.P. holdouts--including nine committee chairmen--have spent an average of 14 years in Congress already. Of those, 13 voted for a 1989 pay raise, bounced an average of 43 checks each in the House banking scandal, and will receive an average pension of $1.7 million. (The records of the veteran Democrats who oppose McCollum's measure are, if anything, worse.) Said Cleta Mitchell, the institute's director: "This is their entitlement...
...Mexican Scandal Widens...