Word: smear
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Vorster's virulent smear, given great prominence in the South African press, is probably a prelude to banning NUSAS or its leaders...
...faceless image molders who, in the end, made the Pygmalion of legend seem by comparison a mass of clumsy thumbs. Under close and improving direction, her famous walk developed from something crudely virginal into something profanely sophisticated. Some unknown Corot reduced the red of her lips from a massive smear to a spot in a breathtaking landscape. Her hair, sprayed and sculpted a thousand times, softened down into a pangloss of wishful thinking, making nature say uncle...
...senses that the Actors Studio has not entirely prepared him for the responsibility. He attempts an important voice, but most of the time he sounds like a small boy in a bathtub imitating Winston Churchill. He ventures a diplomatic brush, but his upper lip produces merely a promising smear. He sports an expensive cutaway, but the more he tries to be elegant the more he looks like a stevedore at his daughter's wedding. Through the stuffed shirt peeps the T shirt, and at his most ambassadorial moments Marlon is unmistakably a man who longs to scratch. The customers...
...Burke did not win this round in the effort to hold and develop jobs for needy Harvard undergraduates, but it was his obligation to try. It is characteristic that the CRIMSON, though knowing this side of the story full well, has lost track of it in the effort to smear Mr. Burke...
...CRIMSON brushes quickly by the matter of "legal action," but makes sure to mention it as a part of the general smear and attaches particular blame to Mr. Burke and not, as would be proper, the whole corporation. What the CRIMSON means, one has to conclude, is that there just has to be something wrong, some touch of guilt, when a case is brought to law to settle a dispute. This is Joe McCarthy stuff. In our society the rule among honest men is to wait the decision of the court...