Word: slanderous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forgets himself and nearly rapes her. Sade is whipped -- in London and New York with Corday's flowing hair, since the decency laws forbade public flagellation -- and here with a lash of six flat leather tails. Marat sinks into darkness and confronts the ghosts of his past, who slander his childhood, and Voltaire and Lavoisier, who mock his scientific achievements -- all played by a writhing tableau of mental patients...
...rabbits for sport. The cool mechanics of death are recorded in some of the most grisly hunt scenes ever filmed, and during a long, hot afternoon the lust for killing slowly grinds toward a fitting climax. Boozing and broiling in the sun, the men try to buy, sell and slander one another. The hair triggers of anxiety touch off frustrations over their wives, mistresses, businesses, and their expanding waistlines. And at last the verbal sniping takes a deadly turn-hunters hunting hunters...
Prosecutor: Your story says that, "As usual, the paper [Izvestia] printed an editorial calling for observance of Public Murder Day." Isn't that slander on the entire Soviet press...
CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). One of the earliest Negro activists was a slave named Sojourner Truth. She was born in 1797, and she went to court to test segregation, retrieve a child from slavery, sue a white man for slander. This program dramatizes her struggle...
Both Liberals and Tories were relieved. The Munsinger case had simply become too hot to handle. The Tories' fire-breathing chieftain John Diefenbaker sounded strangely subdued in Parliament when he damned Liberal Justice Minister Lucien Cardin, who started the fuss in the first place, for "smear, scuttlebutt, slander and smut." Diefenbaker did not even try for a vote of confidence. His style was undoubtedly cramped by the fact that his former Transport Minister, George Hees, a gregarious Torontonian who at first indignantly disclaimed any acquaintance with the blonde, now conceded that he might have lunched with her at Ottawa...