Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are women galore in the current scandal, but not one of them is a figure of power or authority. We are back with prefeminist vixens, villains and victims. Couldn't we at least get a Marcia Clark or a Leslie Abramson? The President's inner circle has mostly been an all-male preserve (just ask Dee Dee Myers). Ken Starr's deputies are swaggering cowboys, and the attorneys for the witnesses are all pinstripes and red meat. Marcia Lewis, Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky have become household names, but would you want your daughter to grow...
Things had gone quiet for a while: a spring adagio after the raucous winter, when minor witnesses came and went and Clinton's approval ratings wafted above it all, as scandal stories fell to a total of only 10 per week on the evening news. The tempo was set largely by the White House. Clinton's lawyers asserted new kinds of executive privilege and then appealed each defeat, and they kept refusing, once, twice, six times, to accept Starr's invitation for Clinton to show up voluntarily to tell his story. Every so often Starr got defiant letters in reply...
...much of the spring and summer, members of Congress have viewed the Monica Lewinsky scandal with a kind of queasy detachment. "It's as if something has been going on in another room, or maybe next door," says Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat from Connecticut. "You know something's happening over there, but it's not really affecting...
...typical day, the Associated Press, America's lion of fast, accurate journalism, runs several stories this sickening on its wire. Reading them on an old Atex computer at my desk at work, where we get several AP wires, frequently makes me ill. The AP reports every major scandal, murder, theft, rape or other gruesome deed that makes the papers, and many too gory to hit newsprint cross the wire as well...
...course, given last week's story about the child-services bureaucrat arrested for peeking up a little girl's skirt at a bookstore, that might not be the answer. And given the Baptist scandal over the minister who bought a house with his alleged mistress and allegedly embezzled from the church, the myriad Catholic priest child-molestation trials and the numerous other reports of misdeeds from just about every single religious denomination to profess a faith in the divine, I don't think we can trust the clergy any more, either...