Word: whitewash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tracing its hero's rise from beer-delivery boy to the threshold of greatness, the film applies whitewash so thickly that the coated object loses all shape. About the only big event in Presley's real life not touched upon by Loving You is his invasion of Hollywood. This is understandable. To be true to its own brand of ballyhoo, the film would have to show Elvis-modest and shy fellow that he is-rejecting all offers to lend himself to Hollywood commercialism...
...their own time, Jessop's managers and workers alike pitched in for a year to lug away junk, paint cranes, repair roads, whitewash walls, mend roofs, hang office draperies-all led by Rackley in person. Only once did a tired worker complain, calling Rackley a phony. Equally tired, Rackley promptly punched the dissident in the nose. In admiration for his hard work and leadership, employees gave Rackley a $2,000 kitchen for his home last year, gather there for parties with the boss...
...trying to serve Moscow in its coverage of the Hungarian rebellion, London's Communist Daily Worker had a rebellion on its own hands last week. Of its 30 staffers, four quit and 19 signed a petition protesting the paper's whitewash of Soviet brutality. Angriest of those who quit was its star correspondent, Peter Fryer, fresh from his assignment in Budapest itself. The others: Political Cartoonist "Gabriel" (real name: James Friell), Features Editor Malcolm MacEwan and Film Critic Patrick Goldring...
...argues that after Henry Tudor destroyed Richard at the Battle of Bosworth. he was careful, as Henry VII, to take away Richard's reputation as well as his crown. Tudor historians (whom Shakespeare followed) spent the next hundred years or so blackening the defeated monarch in order to whitewash their own regime. So, Kendall argues, all Tudor evidence is suspect; only the evidence of Richard's contemporaries should be taken into account...
...crocodile tears of William Knowland. TIME'S resume of the Al Sarena investigation, however, constitutes, if not a nosedive, at least a pratfall. Those of us who were familiar with the mine before it was glamorized by the Al Sarena label know it as a forlorn hope. Your whitewash of the case might serve its purpose elsewhere in the nation, but in Oregon it is generally conceded that an obsolete mining law and political influence have been used to take a sizable bite out of our national forest...