Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing about AIDS was trying to get into a Borscht-Belt comedy act, that there was a way it was being domesticated and treated as though it were one more phenomenon in the ghastly-but-we'll-somehow-survive-it New York cityscape. I felt that [AIDS] is a scandal and should remain a permanent scandal, and that everything should treat its oddness and unacceptability. There's a certain kind of humor that is used to domesticate the horrible and I didn't want to do that...
...newspapers trumpeting another misdemeanor of some faraway Jay Kim or Jung Il Kim and having to listen to the same old jokes. In the meantime, I am a man in search of a name. What should I do? Should I pick up another alias? If you think of any scandal-proof, easy-to-remember appellations, drop me a line...
...first such shipment. Earlier ones totaling nearly 2,000 lbs. had already made their way onto the streets of American cities. A DEA investigation then uncovered a scandal in which a fellow U.S. agency, the CIA, may have unwittingly helped Venezuelan paramilitary officers run a profitable coke-trafficking operation. Details of the scheme emerged last week as the CIA, prompted by reports that TV's 60 Minutes was preparing an expose, acknowledged that its actions in Venezuela were "regrettable" and the result of "poor judgment." Says one DEA official, "They got caught with their pants down...
...Committee, Rollins said he was stunned by the reaction to his earlier remarks. "Obviously, if I thought it was going to be a national story, I would not have taken a gun and put it to my head and blown my career apart," he said. His shame over the scandal has been so overwhelming, in fact, that he has thought about killing himself: "It's to a point where I've -- you know, I thought of putting a gun to my head...
Victorious G.O.P. politico inexplicably volunteers payoff scandal details...