Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...copy of this leaflet. I didn't even realize it, but I've been sexually harassed--twice. Before I got my mint green copy of "Tell Someone," I didn't know that mere invitations to dine with a professor--delivered without any physical action, veiled threat or crude innuendo--could constitute harassment...
...three constantly vie for power in their flat, engaging in teasing sexual innuendo. These dynamics eventually spin out of control when, saddled with an extra room, they seek a fourth flatmate. After an interview which plays more like an interrogation, they settle on Hugo (Keith Allen), who manages to die of an overdose immediately after moving in, leaving a suitcase full of pound notes under...
...received startling corroboration in Paris last week with the publication of Une Jeunesse Francaise (A French Youth): Francois Mitterrand 1934-1947. Written by investigative reporter Pierre Pean, this 616- page study exhaustively documents a period of Mitterrand's life that has long been the subject of speculation, rumor and innuendo. Friendly biographies have heretofore ignored or glided around the question that haunts every French member of Mitterrand's generation: Just what did he do before and during the World War II Nazi Occupation...
Simpson's hospital visit was a sharp dose of reality in what has otherwise been a month of rumors, innuendo and wild theories. While any good criminal- defense team is expected to do its best to create reasonable doubt about its client's alleged guilt, what makes the Simpson squad stand out is the lengths to which it tries to use the media to mount its counteroffensive. Lead attorney Robert Shapiro may be the master spinner, but he counts on a formidable team of private investigators to dig up information that will help his case. Heading this team...
Such priorities wouldn't be so offensive, if the television news pack admitted that they were nothing more than ordinary Hollywood purveyors of prurience. The cascade of innuendo, inaccurate reports, relentlessly rebroadcast melodramatic tapes are "news" in the way that "America's Most Wanted" is "news". It deals with things that seem to have happened. If only ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox would admit that this is what they now mean by news, the rest of us could resign ourselves to the fact that there aren't 11 news programs in prime time, but 11 cousins of "America's Most...