Word: smears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy and located their wives, snow and the cutting wind were of no concern. Oblivious to Air Force brass and Government dignitaries turned out to do them honor, both officers kissed their wives with unabashed enthusiasm. The McKones held a long, long embrace. The first kiss left a great smear of lipstick around the flyer's mouth. Connie McKone clasped her husband's face in her gloved hands, pulled back to look at him, then moved close to kiss him once more. In the excitement of this moment, conversation was almost incoherent. Every few sentences Bruce Olmstead repeated...
Throughout the centuries, artists have used models in assorted ways, but no one has ever used them in quite the manner of Parisian Painter Yves Klein. He has his nude models smear themselves with paint, then lets them hurl themselves at a blank canvas while he shouts directions from a stepladder. By such tricks, Klein has become at 32 the fad of gallery-going France, and his prices have risen fourfold in the past two years. Last week he invaded West Germany with an eyebrow-raising exhibit in the textile town of Krefeld, twelve miles northwest of Düsseldorf...
...weeks ago, when he summarily fired 14 younger members of the ruling junta headed by fanatical Colonel Alpaslan Turkes. These young zealots talked of setting up a thought-control office and remaking the country along authoritarian lines. They were also responsible for bringing charges of adultery and other smear-type cases against Menderes and the other fallen Democratic leaders on the ground that the Turkish peasants understood immorality but would never understand what a crime against the constitution was. When they tried to push through a draft law last November to put off elections for three years, Gursel rounded...
Example: TIME gleefully repeats the stale Bagwell smear against Michigan's business climate, cites the loss of 40 plants. TIME chose to ignore the fact that Michigan gained 264 new plants and plant additions in the Eisenhower-Nixon recession year of 1958 for a net gain of more than 200 plants...
...state to see if it is fatal for a public official to take an outspoken position on issues that make him politically vulnerable. The focus is on the re-election campaign of Rep. William H. Meyer, whose championing of the peace issue has left him open for a smear-job along all too familiar lines. Another victory for him this year in conservative Vermont would be the peak in a series of surprises on which Meyer has built his short political career...