Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accounted for. As for wrath, that depends. Will she one day wax wroth when she suddenly realizes how many sunlit hours have been spent before the tube? Will she rise and turn off the set? Or is she trapped forever in the flickering world of vicarious fun and games, scandal and sex? Tune out tomorrow...
...raft of scandal sheets that publish their photos have been hit by innumerable lawsuits but seldom hurt by them-awards often amount to no more than a symbolic one franc. Now, however, one newspaper has been ordered to pay $8,000 in damages to the family of the late actor Gerard Philipe -the largest sum yet awarded for photographic invasion of privacy by a newspaper...
...Parliament and hostess of the sparkling intellectual "Cliveden Set" at the family estate in the '30s, himself a onetime M.P., who rented a cottage to Osteopath Stephen Ward in 1956 and thereby spawned a demimonde that featured Call Girl Christine Keeler until it collapsed amid the Profumo scandal of 1963; of an apparent heart attack; in Nassau, the Bahamas...
Even now, following the tradition of Orthodoxy, Eastern-rite Catholic priests are allowed to marry before ordination (except in the U.S. and Canada, where Latin-rite Catholic bishops have until now opposed the idea as "giving rise to scandal"). Pope Paul and his two predecessors gave dispensations to a handful of convert Protestant ministers who were ordained in Europe as priests, even though they already had wives and children. Last month the Archbishop of Mariana in Brazil presided at the marriage of Pedro Maciel Vidigal, a former priest who was released from his vows by the Vatican...
...Sleeping Alone. Her career as an actress was brief but profitable. While she was still in the movies she sniffed every breath of scandal, sized up every star and starlet. When she was through in pictures, she was ready to challenge Louella Parsons as Queen of the Glamourmongers. In 1936 she talked her way onto radio, and in 1938 into her own syndicated column. She and Lolly never got along after that...