Word: smear
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...loyalty of 45 million poor people who benefit from his wide-ranging assistance programs was always a tall order for Geraldo Alckmin, the candidate of the centrist Brazilian Social Democratic Party. Alckmin benefited when members of Lula's Workers' Party (PT) were caught trying to buy documents to smear electoral rivals. The scandal helped Alckmin eat into Lula's lead and deny him the 50%-plus-one margin needed to claim outright victory in the first round of voting, which gave Alckmin 41.6% to Lula's 48.6%. But that may be as good as it will get for the former...
...together some writing, publish it once in awhile, and have nobody read it—you’re The Indy. 5) Get a white/gray wig and be a) Derek C. Bok b) Harvey C. Mansfield c) Michael J. Sandel or d) all of the above. 6) Smear on some duck shit and call yourself the Charles. 7) Go naked and be the allegorical Primal Scream. 8) Cover yourself in red paint and be a piece of buffalo chicken. 9) Get a gray ponytail wig and a ’tude—you’re the pirate...
...Smear Vaseline on Our Legs With a Pipe” aren’t words that one would necessarily expect to see enacted within the hallowed halls of Harvard’s Fogg Museum. But every weekend since June, in a second-floor room roughly the size of a closet, a T.V. screen has been displaying precisely that...
...Foley, who represented Florida's 16th congressional district along what is known as the state's eastern Treasure Coast, wasn't exactly pristine in that regard himself. His camp charges that the e-mail leaks were part of a smear campaign by his congressional opponent, Democrat Tim Mahoney. But Mahoney, whose campaign denies that charge, had recently taken Foley to court for defamation over an attack ad that accused Mahoney of corrupt business practices that left scores of Florida workers unemployed...
...they are enjoying looks like a multi-species suicide pact. There's the standard eviscerated kangaroo, but also an emu less than a meter away, head tucked under its wing as if sheltering from the wind that fluffs its feathers. Beside it is a foul-smelling black-and-white smear that might have been a penguin, for all the amateur pathologist can make...