Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this hypothesizing may prove foolishly premature. There is the chance that the Hillary boomlet is being stoked by the Administration as the perfect post-impeachment diversion: a party in honor of the scandal's only victor, a celebration that doesn't appear smug. Who better than Hillary to fill the media vacuum left by That Woman? And what better way to create a diversion from the ongoing Clintonian sleaze watch, including the newly published allegation of a Clinton sexual assault in 1978 and the possibility that Judge Susan Webber Wright will hold him in contempt for his testimony...
...Monica Lewinsky scandal seemed to last an eternity, it?s because it did. On Tuesday, for the first time in 19 months, President Clinton met with congressional leaders of both parties finally to discuss matters of state. Officially on the table were issues such as Social Security, tax reform and defense matters. But what was really on everyone?s mind was whether the participants could actually bear to be in each other?s presence. ?The amazing revelation,? says TIME congressional correspondent Jay Carney, ?was how everyone managed to stay on their best behavior and how everyone expressed a willingness...
...pervasiveness of legal concepts these days is coupled with the heaping of scorn on them. Take "legalistic hairsplitting," used to imply that we all know the precise meaning of common phrases like sexual relations. Thus the scandal has brought a touch of reality to our talk, making us realize how little we actually agree on the meanings of basic words. Not only do some people define "sex" narrowly as "sexual intercourse," but health professionals have long known that Humpty Dumpty spoke for us all when he claimed, "When I use a word, it means just what I choose...
...Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley was asked by an MSNBC anchorman last week to identify the winners and losers of the past year, there was one name conspicuously absent from Turley's list: Jonathan Turley. For of all the pundits who have achieved talk-show celebrity since the scandal broke, Turley--a liberal academic with anti-Clintonian views and a background in environmental law and constitutional criminal procedure--was the biggest winner. During one gravity-defying stretch, he appeared on at least one of the influential Sunday-morning shows for 10 straight weeks. He was a guest at various...
Having shot to the top of the commentariat, Turley and the other upstart impeachment specialists may now come tumbling down, casualties of the scandal's end. Not just pundits but also entire cable-news networks would seem to need new identities. Yet the three networks that lashed themselves tightest to the mast of this story--CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel--won't let it go gently. "It's been a very good 12 months for us," says Erik Sorenson, vice president and general manager of MSNBC, perhaps the most Monicamaniacal of all. Sorenson says the network has "already started...