Word: smearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abolish the old name weathered a 262 to 123 vote. Richard Ichord (D-Mo.), the new chairman of HUAC (or HISC), had little reason to expect such heavy opposition from the liberals. The "un-American" in HUAC's old name had been a fighting word to them, a chauvinist smear. The New Republic, for example, editorialized: "At present a lot of Congressmen vote funds for the committee lest they be called unpatriotic. Drop the scare word and the spell breaks." But opponents of the bill feared that a new name would make HUAC more respectable. As the real aims...
Candy is based on the Terry Southern-Mason Hoffenberg satirical novel in much the same way that an elephant might be based on a mouse. All that is left is a smear. Candy (Ewa Aulin), a teeny-bopper who seems to be mentally retarded, is molested by a series of dirty old men in odd clothing. They include a Mexican gardener (Ringo Starr), a poet (Richard Burton), a guru (Marlon Brando), a Minuteman general (Walter Matthau), a surgeon (James Coburn), and Candy's uncle and father-both played by John Astin. The attacks take place on a pool table...
...Negro family takes a miraculous pill that turns them Caucasian overnight. The father and mother immediately start putting down their black neighbors, but their son and daughter refuse to join in the whiteballing. When a racist threatens them, they angrily announce that black is not only beautiful but necessary, smear him with black paint and begin advancing, tarbrushes in hand, on the audience. Playwright Israel Horovitz thoroughly comprehends Freud's dictum that laughter is a release from tension. With fusillades of obscenities and insult humor, he keeps the audience too jittery and hysterical to realize that they have only...
...hearings" were interrupted throughout the afternoon by protests from Rubin and other spectators. "This is not an attempt to find the truth. This is an attempt to smear," said Rubin, who termed the session a "little Chicago," pointing to the 20-odd policemen lining the walls of the hearing room. At one point, another Yippie stood in the audience to ask if he could go to the bathroom...
...battle's ironies is that Daley himself has done as much as anyone else to smear his own police department. At the confrontation in front of the Conrad Hilton, only a few dozen cops broke ranks to crack the head of any civilian they could lay a club on. But Daley defends those who violated discipline. In doing so, he damns the entire department...