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Society's busiest busybodies are in the press, where, under cover of the Constitution, they expose, scold and ridicule public figures, and sometimes win Pulitzer Prizes for it. In the putative national interest, reporters have taken on the roles of mother superior, party boss, neighborhood snoop and cop on the beat. No one knows exactly what the moral code is, but anyone who runs for office, or otherwise pre-empts public attention, violates it at his peril...
...artists: the late French author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol and the French director Yves Robert, who have collaborated across the generations on two airily magnificent movies, My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle, adapted from Pagnol's memoirs. These films mope not; neither do they scold. Instead, audaciously, they take a vacation from fatalism and solemnity, locating radiance in the bosom of an ordinary bourgeois family. They say that life can be beguiling, beautiful -- at least in the storybook clarity of Pagnol...
Preservation of the empire has given the party a potent appeal. One notable scold on the scene last week was Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Gorbachev's chief military adviser, who blasted fast-track reformers for aligning themselves with anti-socialist and separatist forces. His theme -- "Will we lose our homeland?" -- recalled Joseph Stalin's "Great Patriotic War" strategy of wrapping communism in the banner of saving the motherland from Nazi Germany. Akhromeyev wondered if the Soviet Union would now be "dismembered into pieces" subject to the "humiliation" of "dependence on Western governments...
...Monrovia in June. He paid an unexpected visit to the headquarters of the five-nation peacekeeping force that had been sent into Liberia by its West African neighbors. There is speculation that Doe was seeking safe passage out of the country or that he may have been there to scold Lieut. General Arnold Quainoo, the Ghanaian commander of the peacekeeping force, for not paying him a courtesy call at the presidential mansion...
...given a "reprimand" by the full House for his help to a male prostitute, Steve Gobie. The committee had been deadlocked for weeks, as Democrats argued for issuing only a mild letter of "reproval" to Frank while Republicans demanded a more severe punishment. The committee asked the House to scold Frank for fixing parking tickets that Gobie had picked up while driving the Congressman's car, and for using his official stationery to intercede with Gobie's probation officers. It rejected Gobie's claim that he had used Frank's Washington apartment for prostitution with the Congressman's knowledge. California...