Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Archbishop's fall had a bit of everything: a sex scandal, an Internet cabal and even a Stephanopoulos. Not to mention speed. Last week, three short years after the Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Istanbul installed Ohio-born Archbishop Spyridon, leader of 1.5 million American believers, Spyridon bitterly gave his resignation. It was as if the body religious had rejected a transplanted organ...
...desperate times, desperate titles. Heroes for Sale, in which Richard Barthelmess endures war injuries, morphine addiction and betrayal by every military, judicial and corporate authority, was joined on marquees by Beauty for Sale, Girls for Sale, Scandal for Sale. The films painted, in brisk, garish strokes, America's can-do optimism twisted into gotta-have greed. "What could I do?" asks Stanwyck about an office liaison in Baby Face. "He's my boss, and I had to earn my living." She's bad, but the Depression made...
...yawn in Moscow. An Italian newspaper on Thursday accused Russia?s president of taking bribes, while USA Today alleges that he presided over a $15 billion money laundering scheme. But the allegations are unlikely to dent Yeltsin?s already negligible popularity. "The Russian people are suffering scandal burnout," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "Some of these allegations have long been aired in the Russian press ? although they?re dismissed by the Kremlin. Charges of corruption at the highest level don?t have much shock value in this country...
After Salt Lake City's Olympic-bribery scandal forced the resignation or dismissal of 10 IOC members, the head of the Atlanta Olympic Committee, Billy Payne, said his group won the 1996 Games without resorting to underhanded tactics. "We did not bribe anyone," he said in February. "We did not make cash payments. We did not give outrageous gifts." And in a June report to the House Commerce Committee investigating violations of federal bribery laws in Olympic bids, Payne and former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young attested to only 38 items exceeding the $200-per-gift limit...
...report out before the first lady makes her Senate bid. At one time, Hillary?s spin doctors may have welcomed Starr?s swansong as an opportunity to revive the image of their candidate as a target of some unending right-wing conspiracy, but a New York electorate fatigued by scandal is unlikely to be particularly sympathetic to the idea of Mrs. Clinton as a victim. "The only thing that could have helped Hillary would have been Starr leaving town without issuing a report," says TIME Washington correspondent Margaret Carlson. "Her campaign can undermine it and spin it any way they...