Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hungarians love chocolate - indeed, it is their favorite sweet. They eat it in pastries, cakes, cookies, and even as the stuffing of a pancake called palacsinta. But last week Budapest was abuzz with rumors of a scandal that turned many a Communist sweet tooth sour. At lavish parties run for high government officials by the boss of Hungary's state-controlled national catering service, the pièce de résistance was a chocolate-covered airline hostess...
...Maurel, 21, an about-to-be-fired secretary in the ministry who only wanted to help her brother and her boy friend's friend's brother. Once she gave away the answers to her friends, they spread all over the south of France, causing the biggest education scandal in many decades...
Written with Gallic asperity, the novel is composed of a series of bittersweet, Boccaccio-like fables celebrating unambiguously the joys of heterosexual love. They are told by an engaging, disreputable journalist named Jean Macaque, who produces racy copy on order for a Parisian scandal sheet, Coq au Vin, and is a connoisseur of fine women...
...Pravda cocked an eyebrow recently at the Great Sewing Machine Scandal. A decade ago, the Soviet Union was short on sewing machines, so Marxism's planners pressed the "on" button. Immediately factories began competing to see who could turn out more sewing machines faster. Result: Russian seamstresses are awash in a sea of treadles and bobbins. "We have more than 150,000 machines accumulated here," complained a worker at the Podolsk Sewing Machine Factory, "and still we are making thousands of them every...
...Helen Brown, an unmarried psychologist who has written a bestseller called Sex and the Single Girl, Natalie brusquely cleans her hornrimmed glasses from time to time to show that she means business. Tony Curtis, a smutmonger for Stop magazine, described by its editors as "the most disgusting scandal sheet the human mind can recall," wants to write an expose of her. His working title is "Does She or Doesn't She?" She doesn't, of course, and remains a brunette to the end. To get his story, Tony goes to seek her professional advice, posing as an eager...