Word: innuendo
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...writing because this highlights a larger problem which worries me greatly as a woman striving for equal rights in the classroom and in the work place. Women should not be harassed at work because of their sex, or for any other reasons; they should not be humiliated by sexual innuendo or inappropriate behavior. But neither should men. In this incident both the man and women were guilty of this insensitivity, yet only the man was faulted...
...plaintive note of frustration and doubt, the ripped-up pieces of paper found at the bottom of his briefcase after he killed himself, was released last week. His note acknowledged mistakes born of innocence and inexperience. But it also contained the very innuendo and suspicion that he so deplored finding all around him in his short residence in Washington. In his view, the FBI, the Republicans and the editors of the Wall Street Journal had all "lied." Harsh words from an innocent. A lawyer knows that there rarely is an absolute truth...
Instead of being humorous, though, the play simply rolls on with repeated laughs that aren't funny the fifth time. The play is loaded with Freudian humor and innuendo that should only be taken in small doses. Although the actors' performances are better than the script merits, the troupe seemed to have lost the enthusiasm it had when it performed "Baby With the Bathwater" just a few weeks...
Perhaps there is another Spy-Seagal similarity here. Both are adept at high- wire innuendo -- Spy as a key to its satirical japery, Seagal as a spur to his myth. If he did make these remarks, he may have intended them as macho provocations, as sick jokes or as acid tests -- the ultimate Spy prank...
None of Said's political foes have been able to cite a single utterance by him that could be construed as anti-Semitic or as condoning either tyranny or terrorism. Hence they fall back on innuendo, smear tactics or -- in the case of Kanan Makiya, an Iraqi whose recent book Cruelty and Silence, directed against Arab acquiescence in the horrors of Saddam's regime, also fiercely attacks Said -- on distortions of his views. The feud between Makiya and Said has been seized on, to the pleasure of neither, by American anti-Arabists. Said, declaimed A.M. Rosenthal in the New York...