Word: smearings
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...campaign has taken a nasty turn. White says Clements is "a clown" who uses "smear tactics." Clements says the attorney general "is an incompetent lawyer" who has lost most of his big cases. Responding, somewhat lamely, that he has won most of those that he appealed, White declares: "The heroes in Texas were at the Alamo and San Jacinto. You've got to fight." Facing Dollar Bill's well-oiled assault, state Democratic leaders are wondering if, like the Texans at the Alamo, White lacks the organization and resources...
...while the September 14 contest was a success, much needs to be done before total victory can be declared on November 2. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) faces a tough fight against Rep. Margaret Heckler (R-Mass.) in a battle forced by redistricting. Long-shot but heavily financed smear campaigns are being waged against Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and Speaker of the House Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill...
Chuck Lumley (Henry Winkler) is a human fire hydrant for the mad dogs of Manhattan. Delivery boys smear mustard on his door jamb. Sex with his fiancée, a compulsive eater, is a quick kiss between bites of Mallomars. And his new partner on the night shift at the city morgue. Bill Blazejowski (Michael Keaton), is trouble: a pin wheel of sputtering ideas, a motormouth that roared. Out of desperation and a growing fondness for the girl next door (Shelley Long), Chuck devises a scheme that will make them all rich: he and Billy will act as "business agents...
...denied the allegations. Other disavowals followed, including claims by senior advisers to President Lyndon Johnson that they had been well aware of debate among military and intelligence officers about the strength of the enemy. In May, TV Guide (circ. 17.7 million) published its own expose, titled "Anatomy of a Smear...
...enough downbeat connotation for most tastes, can be given additional unsavoriness by truncation: pol. By prefacing liberal and conservative with ultra or arch, both labels can be saddled with suggestions of inflexible fanaticism. To speak of a pacifist or peacemaker as a peacenik is, through a single syllable, to smear someone with the suspicion that he has alien loyalties. The antifeminist who wishes for his (or her) prejudice to go piggyback on his (or her) language will tend to speak not of feminists but of fern-libbers. People with only limited commitments to environmental preservation will tend similarly to allude...