USA: "Scandal is a social purification ritual that society needs"

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SCANDALS:

It's only when a great scandal breaks after a protracted dry spell that you realize how much delight other people's transgressions provide the community and how monotonous things get when everyone plays by the rules.

Life had been a bit sluggish on the scandal front this summer .......

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