Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that it is trudging along in the ranks of the Slick. Plumed cavaliers either joust each other or set up straw men, hollow men, graven images of themselves, to knock down. The magazine is covering a game of daggers sliding out of ruffled tuxedo sleeves, or a swift innuendo to the kidneys, or, at best, a Polaroid snapshot of stasis. They're all interesting, these conspiracies, but [MORE] has missed the Big One. There's no world-view here, and the rats are scuttling in the cellar and the ice cap melts. More is now less...
...prose crackles with innuendo as the plot quickly becomes as complicated as Edward's mind-and as haunted by ghosts and obsessions. British Author Derek Marlowe, best known for A Dandy in Aspic, pits Lytton's prim England against sensual Haiti, Catholicism against voodooism, the terrors of a feverish imagination against the banality of a tourist's experience. What starts out as a thin, sinister tale ends as a psychological chiller finely wrought for any season...
...sportswriters still face more obstacles than a hurdler. Sportswriting nowadays is focusing less on the play by play and more on the thoughts, problems and personal lives of athletes, and women can be at a disadvantage in getting close to their sources. "There is too much misunderstanding, too much innuendo if you try," says the Washington Star's Kathleen Maxa, 27. Assigned to cover a major tennis tournament last summer, Maxa talked a famous European player into an exclusive interview and accompanied him to his hotel, where it turned out that he was less interested in talk than action...
...Asia; but foot-ball-helmeted B.D. was given plenty of space to rationalize. "A protective reaction strike is never having to say you're sorry." The strip was unmistakably anti-Nixon during Watergate, but also took whacks at the Ervin committee: The chair opens up the floor to innuendo and hearsay. In fact, Doonesbury is sometimes so Delphic that adherents of just about any point of view can find aid and comfort in it. For foes of school busing, there was a series in which a white boy in a newly integrated school is beaten up by blacks. Busing...
...boys keep up a sputtering fire of obscene expletives, raw sexual gibes and smutty innuendo. The girls and the model give as good-or as ill-as they get. Allott does not monitor this chatter, but he does deliver scathingly caustic appraisals of each individual's sketches as well as alienating colleagues (Peter de Maio). After Act II gets under way, Allott suggests that he might take the place of the model for a while. Before he does anything about it, one of the randier boys begins stripping, grabs the model, pins her down and rapes her before...