Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terms of personality, Clinton has a flowering reputation as the "scandal-a-week" candidate. Bush, like Major, is dull but inoffensive...
Bryant was publicly voicing what a growing number of House Democrats have been saying behind closed doors. To them, Foley could have cleaned up the House bank before it grew into the most damaging congressional scandal in decades. Instead, he has exposed them to ridicule -- and possible defeat this November -- by failing to crack down on former House sergeant at arms Jack Russ, whose sloppy oversight of the now defunct bank permitted members to write overdrafts long after Russ had assured the Speaker that new procedures to prevent such abuses had been installed. Even after Foley was warned by comptroller...
...next year, Foley did nothing to determine if Russ had followed through on his pledge, made in December 1989, to tighten the bank's check- writing policies. The scandal reached the front pages in September 1991, when the General Accounting Office reported that lawmakers had overdrawn their accounts 8,331 times between July 1989 and June 1990. Foley still did not punish Russ. As he explained in an interview last week, "I had no authority to fire Russ. I could have asked him to resign, I suppose, but I couldn't dismiss him. And what I was seeking...
Later that year Texas Democrat Jim Wright stepped down as Speaker after becoming embroiled in an ethics scandal. As House majority leader, Foley was the logical successor to Wright. When some Congressmen sought to reassure themselves that Foley was "squeaky clean," they asked Russ if he had any damaging information about him. Russ told them about the FBI report...
...this all seem too insidey to the public? Maybe not. The decade-long spotlighting of the movie industry -- on Entertainment Tonight, in newspapers and best sellers -- has taught the mass audience that film production is a spectator sport. Like any other modern sport, it trades in money and celebrity, scandal and sex appeal; it has big winners and losers, all playing for high stakes, which they are happy to drive into their opponents' little black hearts. To them, Griffin Mill is not a parody; he is a patron saint...