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Loeb's most notorious attack came during the 1972 presidential campaign. The Union Leader published a spurious letter claiming that Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine laughed at an ethnic slur aimed at Franco-Americans, and an item suggesting that Muskie's wife was overly fond of cocktails. The candidate's tearful denunciation of Loeb outside the Union Leader offices, captured on network television, was thought to have doomed Muskie's presidential chances...
Mountbatten, of course, is dead, killed by the I.R.A. in August 1979. Wilson labeled the allegation of Mountbatten's involvement in a plot "an unwarranted slur...
...listened impassively to a stream of eulogies on his wisdom, his leadership, his "tireless" struggles for peace. Then after eight days it was over, and Brezhnev stepped to the podium last week to bring the congress to a close. Looking relatively vigorous and speaking forcefully, though with his usual slur, the 74-year-old leader announced his election as party chief for another five years. Then he called for "immense effort" from the 5,002 approving delegates in the Kremlin's vast Palace of Congresses. "Our supreme goal will be reached," he declared. "Communist society will be built " Thus...
...warn't nothing but my sparring partner. Four times, four times I'll be champ. $20 million. Biggest thing ever. $30 million. I'm the champ, he ain't nothin' but a chump!" The man at ABC has had enough. With Ali still screaming in the backround, the slur won't go away, the scene shifts to Scott Ledoux, who is complaining about absorbing a thumb...
They, and everyone else, should listen to her. Her voice, alternately angry, calm, sardonic and compassionate, spins healing magic. The term chinamen is a literal and figurative slur, a squeezing to gether of words for the purpose, intended or not, of diminution. China Men puts the pause back where it belongs. Maxine Hong Kingston, a woman warrior indeed, stares down her men in equal combat; ultimately, this granddaughter, daughter and sister helps them win the respect their dignity deserves. -Paul Gray...