Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...York News Syndicate. Written by New Journalist Gail Sheehy (Passages), the series unblushingly depicts Cunningham as an angel, awesomely gifted, scrupulously moral and out to improve the world through humane capitalism; it is laced with enough mawkish prose and gratuitous personal detail to make Harold Robbins blush. As the scandal mounted, for instance, Sheehy reported: "Mary Cunningham sat in her hotel room at the Waldorf. She could not eat. Every so often, she stepped into the bathroom to vomit." Also: "The mildew of envy is a living, corroding organism in the corridors of power." Chairman Agee, Sheehy discloses, is currently...
...Swanson on Swanson, former Movie Queen Gloria Swanson, 81, describes a 1927-29 liaison with the elder Kennedy, a business partner in many of her films. The affair destroyed her marriage to the Marquis de la Falaise, she reports, and nearly ended Kennedy's to Rose. The impending scandal, writes Swanson, led Boston's late William Cardinal O'Connell to beg her to end the affair. "Each time you see him becomes an occasion of sin for him," the Cardinal warned. That did not especially impress either of them. When the two finally fell...
...possessed, to a fault, the knack of not threatening the client, either by critical insight or expressive force. When he settled in Bath in 1759, he was determined to be the mirror of the upper 5% of England, the gratin who came there to take the waters, exchange scandal in the Pump Room and pursue their intrigues, sexual and fiscal, in the ambit of the great country houses of Wiltshire and Somerset. This was not a vocation for a social critic. Gainsborough completely shared the values of the class he depicted. If that made his portraits a little monotonous...
...Finally, nobody ever really wants a scandal cleared up. Uncleared-up, a scandal is like radio: it allows the imagination to rove like a child in a flower field, especially when an office romance is involved, and the imagination may cavort among infinite possibilities of after-hour adventures behind the desk-legs sprawled wildly among the Eberhard Fabers; Muzak stuck on Boléro. When the candid spoilsport steps forward to tell it like it actually was, the imagination's freedom is curtailed. The audience grows vengeful. Carnage ensues...
...enough alone, perhaps because their errors are errors of the heart. Who but a genuine innocent-in outlook, if not in conduct-would be so bold or dumb as to put his life on the line like that? Not a Frenchman, certainly, who would regard a scandal as droll; nor an Englishman, to be sure, who would regard it as an honor. No, only an American would blunder forth as in the Agee case, openly advocating fair play, the merit system, and the rights of privacy within the same declaration. Only an American would be so impatient as to prevent...