Word: innuendoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different people-the old mass- vs.-class editor's problem." But mass vs. class makes a poor defense in the case of the Post's gossip column called the "Ear," which ran in the Washington Star until that paper folded last August. It is so full of innuendo, knowledgeable references to a lot of people who are not household names and condescending intimacy toward the well-known that the masses would need a decoder to follow...
...against antiwar demonstrators and describes how White House Operative Charles Colson surreptitiously sent one group of protesters a supply of oranges under the name of then Democratic Presidential Front Runner Edmund Muskie. The episode is thought by some to have been the beginning of a White House campaign of innuendo and slander against the former Maine Senator...
...didn't want to go through the meat grinder," Helms says of his reluctance to run. "I just couldn't see myself having any great personal appeal to the voters." His opponent was Democrat Nick Galifianakis, a moderate U.S. Representative whose Greek name was made the target of subtle innuendo. Helms' slogan: JESSE HELMS: HE'S ONE OF US. He won, 54% to 46%. Helms went to Washington with big hopes and a modest bankroll. His recorded share of Capitol Broadcasting...
...Procter & Gamble to knuckle under to a campaign of demagoguery, innuendo and selective threat by the Rev. Donald Wildmon's Coalition for Better Television [June 29] is an act of cowardice. As long as they withhold their sponsorship from shows that I prefer, I shall clean myself and my household with homemade soap...
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...