Word: slanders
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That assumption is a bit of a slander upon the animal kingdom, of course. It arises from an egocentric and spiritually complicated habit of mankind. People use animals not only for food and clothing and scientific experiment and decoration and companionship, but also, most profoundly, for furnishing the human mind with its myths. Victor Hugo wrote, "Animals are nothing but the forms of our virtues and vices, wandering before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls." We become those elaborately varied creatures, we take their forms. Odysseus' companions were transformed into swine, but in the metamorphosis, their intelligence...
...show up to face the heat. He not only showed up but droned through a standard speech about disarmament. His audience listened anxiously to hear whether Gromyko would mention the airliner. He did, in a few defiant sentences at the end, accusing the U.S. of inspiring "a wave of slander and shameless insinuations against the U.S.S.R...
...Kohl reported. He also asked that the Soviet Union grant exit visas to an estimated 100,000 ethnic Germans who seek to emigrate to West Germany. In addition, Kohl risked offending his hosts by speaking up on behalf of Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov, currently the victim of a government slander campaign in the Soviet press...
...show has become newsier and more credible. Now when E.T. attends a media party, asserts Bellows, "we're not there to taste the shrimp." Bellows has made it clear to the staff that he wants to break, not inflate, stories. E.T. closely followed the recent slander trial of Dr. Carl Galloway vs. Sixty Minutes and Dan Rather, telecasting outtakes from unedited CBS interviews. Last month a new E.T. investigative team did a four-part feature about the National Enquirer that was both balanced and informative. That same team is currently working on a report called "Where Does Your Money...
...network news. Perhaps that is why NBC, ABC and Cable News Network gave such prominence to Rather's uncomfortable three days on the stand in Los Angeles, where he and CBS were being sued by a physician Linked to an insurance-fraud scheme by 60 Minutes. That slander trial ended last week in a judgment for CBS, but the experience was embarrassing nonetheless...