Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group has had its ups and downs since. By 1830 its members' near monopoly on government positions--and a scandal over the mysterious disappearance of a brother who broke secrecy--provoked the birth of American single-issue politics: the Anti-Masonic Party nearly wiped the group out. The Masons eventually bounced back as the preferred club of the country's merchant class--the Strauss family reportedly built Masonic columns into New York City's Macy's--and again as political incubator. The two Roosevelts, Tom Dewey and Harry Truman all belonged. After World War II, G.I.s who had enjoyed...
WASHINGTON: This one could be for real. Republicans have finally found themselves a presidential scandal that goes beyond land deals, beyond peccadilloes, all the way to the selling of America's national security. And they don't want to blow it this time...
...upcoming China trip rolled through with a 417-4 vote -- and similar measures are on the way. The message was clear: Clinton cannot be trusted with U.S. security. And the fact that Democrats rolled over for the onslaught shows how just worried they are. "This is a scandal of a different order of magnitude," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "Democrats can't respond to this one with the usual accusations of partisanship...
Last Thursday, after his first solo press conference since the Lewinsky scandal broke, Clinton was praised for a bravura performance. Few asked whether what he said was true, or if it mattered--only whether it worked. At 65% in the polls, the President could do with a little less Eddie Haskell, a little more Bulworth. There might be a legacy...
...oddly, scandal and trash may sometimes be transformed upward. Mere sleaze may blossom into art. Greek tragedy told stories more lurid than afternoon television does. (Next Jerry Springer: "Guys who murdered their fathers and married their mothers.") The tale of Mary Letourneau and the boy Vili even begins to touch us now with a certain screwball Romeo-and-Juliet poignancy. There's an interesting humanity in the tale, an aberrance with something almost sweet about...