Word: smearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real peculiarity of his figurative style is that it manages to be both precise and ungraspable, for its distortions of face and limb bear little relationship to anything that painters have done to the human body since Cezanne. Forms are governed by slippage: they smear sideways, rotating, not like the succession of displayed facts and transparent planes in cubism, but as though they had endured some terminal rearrangement by massage. Their shape retains an obstinate integrity, the precise result of a sudden movement. And by the early to mid-'60s, the time of the great triptychs, when Bacon decisively abandoned...
...MAJORITY OPINION has accomplished an interesting feat--while simultaneously jumping on the bash-Meese-forever-without-evidence bandwagon, it manages at the same time to smear a White House advisor who has done nothing improper, has never been officially accused of any wrong-doing, and is in any case leaving the Government...
Back in the dressing room, wrestlers are having a smoke and taping their limbs in preparation for bouts to come. Some smear on baby oil to avoid abrasion from the ropes and canvas ring. "Bruiser" Frank Brody, mid-30s, preparing to wrestle, unclasps his black hair from a ponytail, douses it under a tap and lets it hang limp and long about his huge shoulders. "I might work ten or 15 days in a row," he says softly. "I try to save money, live quiet and plan for retirement," he adds. Well-known wrestlers like Brody earn anywhere from...
...also overcame a pre-election smear campaign in some Swiss newspapers against her husband Hans, an attorney. According to those reports, he was suspended from practicing in court for six months in 1972 following allegations, which he has denied, that he had spanked some of his secretaries with a bamboo stick. Elisabeth Kopp asked that her qualifications be considered, not her husband's. Her election, she said last week, was "a success for all the women of Switzerland...
...defeats suffered by North Viet Nam during the Tet offensive of early 1968, Westmoreland claims, vindicate his command's method of reporting enemy strength. In an internal investigation six months later, conducted after TV Guide had published a cover story on the show titled "Anatomy of a Smear," a CBS official concluded that the word "conspiracy" was not justified and that certain of the network's reporting guidelines had been violated; but both he and CBS insisted that the basic conclusions of the broadcast were correct...