In July 1981, the then disgraced president, Banisadr, was alleged to have escaped from the country dressed as a woman.
IT HAS been a bad time for those who rode to power on the coat-tails of Charles Haughey, thrice prime minister between 1979 and 1992 but since then disgraced by a string of scandals still unfolding.
The closing chapters of the book, in which Hurstwood is ruined and then disgraced, are among the most powerful pages in a novel of merciless momentum, whose unsentimental depiction of big-city life sets it apart.
When your power is limited, when you cannot vote, when your opinions and contributions are dismissed solely because of your gender, then the disgrace of witnessing your own people butcher and be butchered must not only cause you to revisit everything you assumed about human nature but also asks you to view it from the distance of the outsider.
"When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom".
"When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom" (Proverbs 11 2).
The then recently disgraced Lord Archer lived there.
I duly jot down this peerless piece of review-speak, but then he disgraces himself, announcing: "The brill is brill".
So Mr. Dunham sought inspiration elsewhere: in Surrealism, then thoroughly disgraced; in what Philip Guston was doing in his last years, which most people thought was ridiculous; and in artists like Kandinsky, Miró and Cy Twombly.
Penn State Athletics announced Tuesday that the legendary -- and then legendarily disgraced -- football coach would be inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in October.
