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Variations on the King Richard Effect are at work in Oliver Stone's JFK. Richard III was art, but it was propaganda too. Shakespeare took the details of his plot from Tudor historians who wanted to blacken Richard's name. Several centuries passed before other historians began to write about Richard's virtues and suggest that he may have been a victim of Tudor malice and what is the cleverest conspiracy...
...their heads -- literally. A fire-resistant plywood widely used in the roofs of nearly 1 million town houses during the past decade has turned out to have an unexpected vulnerability. Over just a few years, the heat of the sun triggers a chemical reaction that causes the wood to blacken, decay and eventually collapse. Result: a sudden epidemic of leaky buildings, expensive repairs and bitter lawsuits...
...fence-mending expedition to China. But Kissinger said last week that sending Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger was a mistake. Dispatching not one, but two former executives of his consulting firm to implement a policy he supports, Kissinger told the Washington Post, gives critics an opening "to blacken my reputation...
...after row of slot machines, women stand quietly in the aisles, holding plastic cups full of coins that blacken their hands, eating morsels buried in their purses and pulling levers hour after hour, as if at work in a stamping factory. Most are elderly, but their backs are straight, and their eyes are hypnotically fixed on the spinning fruit as the winning coins hit the metal troughs in twos and tens and -- rarely -- jackpot hemorrhages...
...With the help of a highly placed informant, federal authorities dramatically arrest three prominent members of the Manhattan financial community for profiting on private stock- market information. Investigations of insider trading continue to widen. Meanwhile, the practice has become a stain with the potential to blacken the reputation of the entire investment industry...