Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this venture, this excursion"), Flynt's effort is one more signal that things are spiraling out of control. As a sign on a Southern back road says, CHOOSE YOUR RUT CAREFULLY. YOU'RE GOING TO BE IN IT A LONG TIME. We've chosen the politics of scandal, and we may be here forever. "I don't see how you put it back in the box," says Republican Representative Christopher Shays. No one approves of a lying adulterer, and something grave must be done with the awful knowledge Starr forced on us. But impeachment? Flynt says he is just getting...
...rhetoric the American People, for their part, serve alternately as a goad, an inspiration, a shaming device and, of course, an excuse. "I need to go back to work for the American People," he notoriously said on Jan. 26, and then refused to discuss the Lewinsky scandal for almost seven months. Too busy. The American People's work really fills...
...growing ease of spreading dirt is only half the "death of privacy" nightmare that the Lewinsky scandal has stirred up. The other half is the growing difficulty of hiding dirt. Why, when I was a boy, a semen stain was just a semen stain. Now it's a signature. When I was a boy, an intern's girl talk evaporated into the ether. Now it crystallizes in cyberspace as e-mail...
...concerned about the growing trend to demonize Ken Starr. I too am appalled at the content of the evening news. However, I do not blame Starr for unearthing this scandal. I blame the President for his actions. It is clear that Clinton lacks the wisdom to run his own life, let alone the life of this country. Starr was just doing his job. KRISTI STOUGHTON Hudson...
...SEIBERLING taught law at the University of Akron. "Our results were clearly a bipartisan effort," he says. "I don't detect any of that today." And ROBERT DRINAN of Massachusetts teaches law at Georgetown University. "I don't think there's much impeachable here," he says of the current scandal. "I almost resent these people on this committee now, trying to piggyback on the dignity of the Rodino committee." Among members who turned to the practice of law are Democrats JAMES MANN and EDWARD MEZVINSKY (who headed the Pennsylvania Democratic Party) and Republicans DAVID DENNIS, CALDWELL BUTLER, DELBERT LATTA, THOMAS...