Word: tainting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tonnot's arrest added new headlines to a case that had already titillated France and embarrassed President Georges Pompidou's Gaullist party. Prostitution is not illegal per se in France, but pimping and bordellos are. Moreover, the taint of scandal had spread from the flic-operators to party members in Lyon. One Gaullist deputy, Edouard Charret, was implicated when a local newspaper printed a picture of him attending the wedding of close friends. The groom, it turned out, was one of the city's better-known pimps and the groom's mother was a notable madam...
...through the presidential race, one of George McGovern's refrains on his "secrecy-and-corruption" theme was the Administration's refusal to name the contributors who had poured at least $10 million anonymously into Republican campaign chests. The money, McGovern suggested, carried the possible taint of special favors. Eventually Common Cause, the reformist citizens' lobby founded by John Gardner, filed suit to force the G.O.P. to yield up its list of benefactors...
...Democratic challenger. "He finds out that the public doesn't like what he said, so he changes it," says Collins. Asked what would worry her about McGovern as President, Virginia Brock, a Martinsville, Va., schoolteacher and Republican for Nixon replies: "The fact that he is indecisive." The taint of radicalism continues to haunt the Democratic challenger. Ronald Baker, an Arlington, Texas, helicopter assemblyman and Independent, finds McGovern "30 years ahead of himself. The country is too conservative to buy his goods right...
...contribution. Republicans raised a hefty $21.5 million this way in 1968, and the Democrats $17.9 million. Although the price of tickets sometimes runs higher, Republicans generally stop at $1,000 a plate and Democrats at $500. Since the dinners are large and each guest pays the same price, the taint of special privilege is slight. On a smaller scale, sponsors of a $25 dinner for Alaska State Senator C.R. Lewis were embarrassed when they sold 700 tickets and only a dozen guests appeared. Many of the absentees, it turned out, were Seattle-based businessmen who apparently appreciated Lewis' opposition...
...taint of reality sullies Noël Coward. In his plays and musicals, no man toils, no woman spins and no child is seen, let alone heard. There are no families, only menages of bright, brittle and bizarre people for whom life is one long marvelous party. His is a hermetic world sealed against headlines, problems and pain, and most of all against boredom, which to Coward is the eighth deadly...