"The Abbess of Crewe" is considered an allegory for the scandal during which what headquarters were broken into?
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
Title: Bathsheba (Memling)
Passage: Bathsheba (or The Toilet of Bathsheba After the Bath) are names given to a c 1480 oil on wood panel painting by the Early Netherlandish artist Hans Memling, now in the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.  Its unusually close framing and the fact that many of the details are cut off suggests that it is a fragment of a larger, probably religious, panel or triptych that was broken up.  The painting is noted for being a rare 15th century depiction of a nude person in northern renaissance art; such figures typically only appeared in representations of the "Last Judgement", and were hardly as deliberately erotic.  Memling is attributed one other secular nude portrait, in the center panel of his c. 1485 Vanitas allegory "Triptych of Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation", at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg.
Title: The Abbess of Crewe
Passage: The Abbess of Crewe is a novel published in 1974 by Muriel Spark.  It is centred on a Catholic convent in Crewe and the political intrigues surrounding the election of a new abbess, after the death of the former.  It exhibits Spark's typical style of crossing seamlessly between temporal points in the narrative.  Michael Lindsay-Hogg adapted the novel into his film "Nasty Habits", released in 1977.  This book is considered an allegorical treatment of the Watergate scandal.
Title: Watergate scandal
Passage: The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the early 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972, and President Richard Nixon’s administration’s attempted cover-up of its involvement.  When the conspiracy was discovered and investigated by the U.S. Congress, the Nixon administration’s resistance to its probes led to a constitutional crisis.
Watergate scandal The Abbess of Crewe