Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Michael Same, Myra's director and coauthor, deserves special discredit for the repulsive dildo rape scene and the obscene device of interspersing the film with clips from movies of favorite old stars. Thus, in the context of Myra, Laurel and Hardy are made to look like fags. Even more outrageous is the use of Marilyn Monroe sequences during the rape. Only one clip educed any illuminating commentary about Myra. A tough old top sergeant from some obscure war movie growls, "That's what I call disgusting." Precisely...
...Sheriff Morrow? The FBI? Some other national or state law-enforcement agency concerned with radicals? Whoever were Tommy's employers, the incident will reinforce a belief already widely held among the young that much seemingly radical violence is in fact the work of police agencies out to discredit the radical movement...
...another My Lai, the action included one gruesome incident. A South Vietnamese soldier pulled a knife from the side of a prostrate prisoner and then plunged it back into his bare stomach. Said Cronkite: "For reasons not entirely clear, the White House has engaged in an undercover campaign to discredit CBS News by alleging that the story was faked. This has been done by prompting receptive reporters and columnists to publish White House and Pentagon suspicions...
...suggests the obvious solutions. Move important cases into the civilian courts. Tighten up the Uniform Code of Military Justice to get rid of the vague language that sanctions arbitrary sallies against the constitutional rights of servicemen-sections like Article 134 which prohibits "all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces." Sherill is also well aware that with the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in tight control of congressional action on the Armed Forces, the prospects of even minor reforms-much less the overhaul suggested above-are meagre. Sherill, therefore, wraps up his volume with...
...call to "organize politically," if it remains so vague, may eventually discredit the strike. May's strictures on anti-war protest, clumsily delivered at Sanders, keyed on this moot point. His program for write-your-Congressman met hooting and cat-calls. However trite the idea, it confronts all too clearly the limits on political action this month. The same night that May spoke, George McGovern publicly asked students to keep their protest germane to the challenge which will face Nixon in Congress. They should write letters, pressure Congressmen, and circulate petitions on the relevant issue. McGovern's appeal will arouse...