Word: scandalizing
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...moment, the Market is housing The Square Root of Minus One, a deeply disturbing play about sexual hazing at a 1950s boarding school. The program mentions the recent hazing scandal at Groton to underscore the play’s pertinance...
...story is legend. But even legends fade with time, and the years have diminished the lustre on the King of Pop’s crown. He burst on the scene in the 1970s and thrilled the world in the 1980s. But increasing reports of his bizarre personal life and scandal doomed his career in the 1990s, and his latest comeback effort carries with it the faint scent of desperation. Now is the final chance to prove that the Gloved One is still the loved one in the hearts of the people...
...since replaced by new fads and fancies. Staying power need not be an impossible feat, however. Madonna and Sting, both rockers of the 1980s, have stayed fresh and hip well into the new millennium. But they never had to contend with life as a child performer, with racism, with scandal, or with what is perhaps the most insurmountable obstacle of all: a little album known as Thriller...
...media bias is exceptionally difficult. Hidden bias, after all, is by definition unapparent. When someone describes a news story as biased—in interpretation, selection, wording—it often means that it conflicts with what the speaker believes to be an accurate presentation. During the Lewinsky scandal, conservatives were sure that the protection of the liberal media had kept President Bill Clinton in office, just as Clinton’s defenders spoke of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” that was keeping the scandal alive. Without a method to employ, however imperfectly, in pursuit...
When it comes to Hollywood, the claim that “life imitates art” has become the popular cliché of the past several years. When President Bill Clinton launched air strikes against Iraq during the height of the Lewinsky scandal in 1998, the press had a field day comparing the situation to the Robert DeNiro satire Wag the Dog, in which the fictional president commissions the production of a fake war in order to ward off scandal. A year later, when two high school students murdered more than a dozen of their peers at Columbine High School...