Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Columbia's movie-production unit has been floundering for years. The most spectacular flop: Ishtar, the Dustin Hoffman-Warren Beatty desert lark released in 1987, which lost $25 million. Three top-management teams have come and gone since CEO David Begelman was forced out in 1978 amid a financing scandal. Coca-Cola, which bought the studio in 1982 and still controls 49% of its stock, fired British producer David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire) in 1987 after barely a year at the helm, during which he accomplished little besides alienating Hollywood's establishment. Dawn Steel, the current film chief...
...misdeeds reported to the Glenn committee by some of the Federal Government's 23 inspectors general, whose semi-independent offices were created in 1978 to ferret out abuse in the departments and agencies to which they are attached. Glenn has been calling them to testify, spurred by the scandal at the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
Velazquez's life was even, and little is known about its details. It looks quite seamless compared with the struggles of Spain's other archetypal painter, Goya -- a steadily mounting curve of recognition and respect, unmarred by scandal or alienation (although he did father one bastard in Rome). Born in Seville in 1599, the son of a minor Hidalgo family, half- Portuguese, possibly with a trace of Jewish ancestry, Velazquez would always be preoccupied with his social position. (He went to great lengths to qualify as a knight of the Order of Santiago, whose members would not accept him until...
...Frank scandal "stained" the institution he serves? Perhaps, but certainly not as much as the many members of Congress who regularly use their positions for financial gain and sell their votes to the highest bidder, as the staff editorial rightly points out. Has he abused the public trust? If, as is expected, the Ethics Committee finds that Frank knew nothing about the prostitution ring being run out of his Capitol Hill apartment and clears him of any wrongdoing, the answer is no. Finally, will this episode irreparably impair his ability and effectiveness in fighting for the liberal causes that...
FINALLY, Frank should run for re-election because the scandal will not ruin his effectiveness in Congress. He will continue to earn the respect of Democrats and Republicans for being a dedicated legislator. He will continue to champion the cause of women, minorities and the poor. If Frank could distinguish himself in Congress as an acknowledged gay, he can do the same as an acknowledged gay who made serious mistakes...