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...Aside from painting a smear of communist politics in "We," Shapiro attacks the '69 activists for having been too impatient, which is to say too anxious to destroy rotten institutions, or to put it more simply, too communistic. Thus Shapiro uses Lenin to attack "Lenin...
...Panorama. Martha, liberally divesting herself of opinions, condemned streaking, praised Governor Wallace, attacked the nation's schools for being overly psychoanalytical, and deplored conditions in veterans' hospitals. In between, she conducted a few interviews, asking ex-Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas how she felt about the Red-scare smear campaign that Richard Nixon used to defeat her in 1950. Said Douglas: "I woke up the next morning a free person and found that I had been sincere with myself." With ex-Housewife Pat Loud she discussed the lack of neighborliness in New York. The most stirring interview was when...
...Campaign Smear. The Government has charged that Mitchell induced John Dean, then President Nixon's counsel, to contact Casey before the 1972 election and ask him to postpone some SEC subpoenas served on some of Vesco's employees. Casey acknowledged that he got a request from Dean on Nov. 2, 1972 -five days before the election. Dean, he said, wanted the testimony of the employees to be delayed until after the election, lest their appearances before a grand jury somehow be used as a "last-minute campaign smear." But, Casey added, Dean did not say that Mitchell...
...ideology of any stripe. They're not even interested in plot or drama, only in speed and thump. Their stories are alibis for sensationalistic action, and they re-enact the most heinous crimes out of love for the box office. These films are really B pictures, camouflaged with a smear of realism, padded with car chases and gadgetry to hold their audiences...
...face of these difficulties, even some of the most resourceful reporters, like David Bonavia of the London Times and Ulrich Grudinski of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, lean toward dry accounts based on official pronouncements, whether the subject is the latest grain harvest or the smear-Confucius campaign. When Grudinski has the urge to talk to expert sources, he pops down to Hong Kong to mingle with the community of professional China watchers there. The most limited correspondents of all are the Japanese, who operate under rigid self-censorship. When the Japanese were re-admitted following the Cultural Revolution, the major...