Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buying it, are surely accessories to the crime. For we are not, after all, accusing Boggs of anything extraordinary (every office has its adulterers); rather, we are crushed to find him ordinary. And it is not so much that the national pastime has been scarred by scandal as that scandal sometimes seems to be the national pastime. In our appetite for gossip, we tend at times to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts, but only diminished. Let the harassment...
...settings. A white policeman accompanies Jesus to Calvary. The crucified Christ wears a crown of cactus thorns. The three Wise Men bear gifts of kola nuts and chickens. More saucily, South African linocut artist John Muafangejo shows Satan urinating in fear before an angel. Sometimes even modest experiments produce scandal. Cheap reproductions hang beneath the Stations of the Cross carved by Kanutu Chenge for a Catholic church near Lubumbashi, Zaire. They are there to appease a congregation shocked to see Pilate dressed as an African chieftain and women with tribal headbands witnessing the Crucifixion...
...approval of plans of which he was unaware. Or by 1987 Reagan may have forgotten acts taken to help the contras in 1985, even though his fight with Congress over the issue had been a searing one. As the North trial focuses increasingly on Reagan's role in the scandal, it seems likely the ex-President will be called to testify. If Reagan breaks historical precedent by doing so, the clash between his past public statements and Oliver North's basic defense could prove painful and dramatic...
Think it's unfair? Tell that to "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, one of baseball's greatest hitters, who was banned from the game after the 1918 Black Sox Scandal. Or Orlando Cepeda, a sure Hall of Famer--until he went to jail for drug possession...
Bernstein and fellow Post reporter Bob Woodward gained national recognition for their investigative reporting on the break-in at the Democratic National Committee in 1972 and the subsequent political scandal their revelations created...