Word: smearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Once. Casa Cubertini proved to be a small beach house in a remote suburb of Montevideo. Inside on the floor were two large pools of dried blood, and the walls were a smear of bloodstains. Heavy tracks of blood led into a second room, where police found a locked yellow trunk containing a hammer and the battered body of a man. The head was crushed to a pulp. An air ticket and passport thumbprint identified him as Herberts Cukurs, 65, a resident of São Paulo, Brazil...
...CORNEILLE (full name: Corneille Guillaume Beverloo), 42, was born in Belgium of Dutch parents. His splats and spatters of color mash nature out flat like culture-smear samples sandwiched between giant microscope slides. "I always need to latch onto exterior reality," he says, "but I don't do any preliminary work. It's like jazz taking a theme: the rest is spontaneous, emotional creation...
...uterus used to be the most common site of fatal cancer in women. Today, thanks mainly to early detection with the Papanicolaou smear, it is far less deadly. "With 44,000 new cases expected next year, there will be an estimated 14,000 deaths. The A.C.S. believes that an annual "Pap" smear test for all 58 million women...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A fascinating look at the smear campaigns of past presidential elections-the rumors that George Washington was a woman, Abraham Lincoln a Negro-and the successful use of slander in destroying many a political career...
...life that practitioners of medicine, entrusted with the job of ministering to our mentally ill, should allow themselves to be a pawn in the cheap journalistic efforts of Ralph Ginsburg [Oct. 9]. That professional men of such stature should be taken in by such an obvious political smear is indicative of the days in which we are living-days of compromise and diluting of principles, days when sin is labeled as "error," when morality is relative and when materialism emphasizes the values of expediency and the shirking of responsibility. God help us to choose wisely...