Word: innuendo
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Nearly five years ago, Wildmon experienced a prime-time epiphany: one viewing night he could find nothing but sexual innuendo, profanity and violence on television. He was shocked into starting the National Federation for Decency, which in February became a member organization of the Coalition for Better Television. In 1977 he gave up his ministry in a suburban Memphis congregation to work full time for untainted television. He operates out of a dog eared three-room office in an unprosperous quarter of midtown Tupelo, Miss., assisted by a staff of two. The office contains one color TV set, with...
...Council of Ivy Group Presidents' recent advice that the schools' bands curtail sexual innuendo and political jokes of "questionable taste" during football games prompted Harvard Band members to defend their half-time shows yesterday...
...haste. Sellon, who wrote last year's Pudding show A Little Knife Music, started A.W.O.L. as a Pudding show and once rejected, put it into independent production. Pudding shows are a genre unto themselves and defy analysis--but A.W.O.L. is a strange hybrid. It relies heavily on puns and innuendo for its humor, and yet it's not nearly as raunchy and satisfying as the annual transvestite theatrical. At the same time, Sellon doesn't seem to have faith that the audience will accept a straighter musical. He constantly falls back on the device of a show-within-a-show...
Asked in the fourth debate whether the tone of his campaign was negative, O'Neal said he had tried to be positive. "If I wanted to resort to innuendo and smear," he noted," I'd be bringing up a drunk driving charge and how a Wendy's franchise was transferred in the secretary of state's office." He was referring to traffic charges brought against Dixon in California in 1977 and Dixon's management of a hamburger franchise regulated by his office...
...showdown debate and the American hostages, U.S. voters will go to the polls on Nov. 4 to make an irrevocable choice with which they will have to live for at least four years. Despite the confusion caused by the shifting positions of the presidential candidates and the hyperbole and innuendo of a disappointing campaign, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan offer, in many ways, clear-cut and contrasting choices. Whatever other complaints the 1980 American voter may have (and there are many), he cannot complain that he has been confronted with Tweedledum and Tweedledee...