Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...conceptual art had the same intellectual playfulness as his lyrics, and Lennon became a collaborator in many of her projects. They made films-of flies crawling, of dozens of bare bums. They made records, including the notorious Two Virgins, for which they posed naked, front and back. Shock! Scandal! Grim predictions for the future...
...parallels in other democracies. In one corner is aggressive, right-of-center Shimon Peres, 57, the former Defense Minister who is trying to retain the Labor Party leadership he inherited in 1977. In the other is cautious, centrist, former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 58, who was discredited by scandal 3½ years ago, but has been battling ever since to regain the leadership. Peres and Rabin have served in Cabinets together, and they even live within two blocks of each other in the same Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Aviv. Yet the two men are barely on speaking terms. They
...forced to step down in April, when a scandal exploded over the discovery that he and his wife had held an illegal foreign bank account in Washington, D.C. Peres was quickly chosen as Labor's replacement candidate for Prime Minister, only to be resoundingly upset by Begin in the election five weeks later...
...relationship with the press has shifted just as sharply. Giscard is considered a sure bet to win a second seven-year term in the presidential election next spring. Yet a relatively minor scandal has prompted the President to launch a war against journalists. They have responded with angry resistance, but the artillery at Giscard's command is formidable. The three French television channels and the national radio network are all state run. The government appoints their directors, who appoint their news editors, who make sure that little is broadcast that might displease Giscard. Lately the President has taken...
...everything a big production could want: TV stars, starmakers and money-lots and lots of money. But when Los Angeles County District Attorney John Van De Kamp released his long-awaited report on the Charlie's Angels case last week, what had been billed as television's scandal of the decade turned out to be something less than many had expected. "We have determined after careful evaluation of the evidence," said the D.A., "that there are insufficient grounds to institute criminal charges...