Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novel, of course, is powerful by innuendo. Nick Carroway's sense distills the sense of Gatsby, and Carroway's values--the superior morality of the Midwestern small town Christian conscience, the nostalgia for the old American orders under eclipse--judge West Egg. But this movie doles out portions of the narrative like a mess sergeant in an army canteen, everybody gets some: Mr. Gats gets some of Carroway's, Carroway is made to speak what had been silent observation, Daisy and Gatsby even get to act out some of Jordan Baker's. Further, the movie hardhits you with scenery...
...shrill invectives of the "reporters." More depressing than the defamation which will make those few professors who actually run review sessions hesitate before continuing the almost extinct practice of answering questions from students has been a loss of your credibility attendant to these "news" articles heavy with innuendo and with a manifest slanting of data that won't bear the burden of The Crimson's interpretations...
...book Mailer's novelistic imagination won't quit and he tries to make connections between a brief friendship with Robert Kennedy and singing Happy Birthday to President John Kennedy four months before his death. Mailer may have carefully hedged and qualified here, but the innuendo is there. Mailer sees right wing profit in allying her with the two men and uses that as a motive for a CIA or FBI plot to kill her, rather than the suicide by Nembutal cited by the coroner...
...Dean] in that witness chair or whether it is me in this committee chair or any other man in back of this table or any other witness who is going to come before this committee, there are going to be no more threats, no intimidation, no innuendo, no working through the press to destroy the credibility of individuals...
...claim that such stories were "fundamentally inaccurate," added that "at no time has anyone in the White House or this Administration condoned such activities as spying on individuals ... or sabotaging campaigns in an illegal way." He also said that the President was concerned about stories "based on hearsay, innuendo, guilt by association." Chapin finally resigned to take a job with an airline-after Ziegler had denied that he was under pressure to leave. That denial, according to Dean, was also inaccurate...