Word: innuendos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sacrifice," perhaps a grim caricature of U.S.-backed Commander Suicide and his insurgents currently terrorizing Nicaragua, is given a Las Vegas-style introduction. Carried into the theater, a corpse under a blood-stained American flag, he lies still as the glitzy M. C. calls to the audience in the innuendo-filled jargon of show business. "Come on, give him a hand. He has to feel the warmth before he can get up here and perform...
Occasionally Safire is guilty of a more serious offense, in the view of the Times. Says Editor Rosenthal: "Sometimes he goes too far on innuendo, even for a columnist." For example, on very scant evidence, Safire has unfairly suggested that Senator John Glenn is anti-Israel. He couples such impetuousness with a merry disregard for consistency. He quotes with self-satisfaction a line from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself...
...Technically, it's the only lead we've worked on for awhile," said Tamarro, who coordinates work on the investigation by the State Police, the Boston Police and the Saugus, Mass, Police "Everything else was innuendo, and now we have something we can really investigate...
...sexually abusing male pages, but conceded that none had tried to seduce him. FBI agents who have been questioning other pages-some 100 boys and girls, age 14 to 17, who run errands for lawmakers-say that so far they have encountered only similarly vague reports. "Clouds, rumor and innuendo," is the way one agent summarizes the findings to date. One likely result of the scandal, however it turns out, is a long overdue reform of the page system. House Speaker Tip O'Neill last week appointed an ad hoc committee to recommend within a month some system...
...Review's consternation (or glee?), however, Blacks at the New Hampshire college don't get the joke. As a result, Dartmouth's traditional liberal arts tranquility has been ruptured--perhaps irreparably. For one thing. The Review's attacks have undermined the morale of Black students--fending off racist innuendo has made it difficult for Afro-Americans to concentrate on studying. In addition, The Review is giving Dartmouth a reputation for racism that threatens the college's ability to recruit minority freshmen. And, most seriously, The Review's provocation have led to violence. A Black alumni official, Samuel Smith, was recently...