Word: innuendos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stamp is unmistakable. It is not the McCarthy-i??, whipping up a petit bourgeois storm of xenophobia by means of innuendo and aspersion. The intimations and half-truths are there, to be sure. But the mood and the mode-the slickness and the manipulation-belong to Madison Avenue. Creating a market that does not exist, pushing a luxury product like revolution fabricated out of cheap verbal plastic: that is Hyland's bag. I for one was disappointed. The issue should have been on glossy paper, and the photos in color...
...could argue that American English is under siege from linguistic falsehood, but euphemisms today have the nagging persistence of a headache. Despite the increasing use of nudity and sexual innuendo in advertising, Madison Avenue is still the great exponent of talking to "the average person of good upbringing"-as one TV executive has euphemistically described the ordinary American-in ways that won't offend him. Although this is like fooling half the people none of the time, it has produced a handsome bouquet of roses by other names. Thus there is "facial-quality tissue" that is not intended...
...Beyond what would seem to be a natural instinct to get help quickly, a prompt call to the police would have saved Kennedy from some of the innuendo that followed?if indeed he was innocent of drunkenness. One minor point not explained in any statement is how the two men?after undergoing the experience Kennedy describes?could return to the small group and arouse no curiosity. Kennedy says only that he instructed them "not to alarm Mary Jo's friends." As it is, the suspicion is bound to linger that the only reason the two men did not call...
...interest in the Hussites. Several plays have been put on or are due next season about this Czech religious reform movement that was savagely suppressed from outside. Thus the creative variety and resource of Czech theater is its greatest strength-together with the sensitivity of Czech audiences to political innuendo in the most unlikely places...
...into the countryside. The landscape is painted, but the waterfall was created by a play of lights. "He wanted to make a direct statement without words," recalls Duchamp's widow. "Something you look at and just feel." The museum permits no photographs; the implications and the richness of innuendo must rest solely in the mind. What has one really seen? Is this a celebration of sex? Art? Life? Is eros, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder? And what of that strange sense of flesh, poignant and vulnerable as a falling leaf, poised against the spectacle of nature...