Word: scoundrels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with Richard Darman, director of the Office of Management and Budget. "I've been talking about 1991," he said with a rueful smile, "and I don't like a thing I've heard so far." For the moment Mikhail Gorbachev, the wily Slav, and General Manuel Noriega, the Latin scoundrel, hold the spotlight, but Bush knows that in the long run, the monstrous, suffocating federal budget may be his biggest threat...
...attorney has been gathering evidence in an effort to prove official misconduct. At a hearing to dismiss charges against Guzman last month, Miami Federal Judge William Hoeveler posed a pointed query: "Is there any question in anybody's mind that this man is not only a thief but a scoundrel?" After defense attorneys began compiling Portell's history, the DEA removed him from its payroll. Guzman, who returns to court this week, may not be the last woman to fall for the dashing Don Juan. But she may be the last one he turns into a suspect statistic...
...German bombs and sent to Norfolk to be raised by his Aunt Deirdre and Uncle Roy, a local vicar. Rounding out the rectory household is Felicity, a laconic and inaptly named teenage cousin, who leaves her room long enough to be impregnated and abandoned by Raphael Hunter, scholar-scoundrel and the novel's sinister presence...
...publishing scoundrel!" That is what the imperious old woman in Henry James' The Aspern Papers hisses at her ambitious lodger when she finds him snooping through her yellowed letters for his own scholarly endeavors. To the old woman, he revealed himself as the lowest form of life. Her reaction is not unlike that of Nancy Reagan and her husband to the publication last week of Donald Regan's For the Record. Like the woman in the story, the Reagans acted as if betrayed by someone whose loyalty they had depended on, as though they were the innocent victims...
...preacher' s most spectacular performance -- a public confession following a private admission of meeting prostitutes along a motel strip near New Orleans. So it' s scoundrel time again for Pray TV, a raucous realm that was stumbling toward recovery after ptl and a disastrous 1987. At stake: a $150 million- a- year empire and Evangelicalism' s tattered public image...