Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Television: The real scandal is how Quiz Show treats...
Polanski has adeptly managed to sharpen the pace and buildup of mystery in this slightly convoluted detective thriller. Set in Southern California in the mid-1930s, the film seethes with human greed, political corruption and family scandal, so that it seems that even the land surrounding Los Angeles is tainted...
Credit is due to Polanski for trying to differentiate "Chinatown" from the formulaic detective story which invariably moves from initial chaos to the final restoration of social order. Himself a victim of tragedy and public scandal, Polanski knows that injustice is far more prevalent than happy endings, and the dramatic impact is effective. Yet, other aspects of the film thwart this attempt at originality. Polanski wanted to evoke the world of the Raymond Chandler detective novels, without imitating the look of the black and white classics of the 1930s. Although "Chinatown" was filmed in color, the resemblance...
...Sullivans are a different kind of Massachusetts political family. There's no family money, no Hyannis estate, no hard drinkers, no Harvard degrees and no long, sordid history of scandal...
Other proposal include a "no-scandal guarantee." Hanselman wrote that he will resign if the council's "reputation...is damaged due to any act of incompetence or indiscretion I commit during my insure as presi- dent...