Word: whitewashed
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...Rorschach test. Your perception of the past completely colors the way the movie strikes you." No doubt. But in offering the Panthers as idealists and objects of veneration to today's youth, the movie surely stands guilty of criminal naiveta. What's the politically correct term for whitewash? --Reported by Elizabeth L. Bland/New York
...faces of those who endure the war as it unfolds and the video footage of sniper-attacks, dated 1993, force the plight of the Bosnians very close to the heart. Despite its tendency to whitewash the tangle of politics and history, "Bosna!" is a rare, vivid collection of images which speak with strength to universal human compassion...
...could be said that Greene was never a truer Christian than when forgiving even his un-Christian enemies. This is not to whitewash a self-styled scapegrace who had so many treacheries and transgressions to confess (though it is to give him credit for confessing so openly to them). If he could be unusually tender toward his enemies, he could be unnaturally negligent of his loves. In his championing of the voiceless, the forgotten, the oppressed, he could conceive irrational and implacable prejudices against those he regarded as Established (No?l Coward, say). And sometimes, by his own admission...
...Michel Dupuy's joint contribution, Drancy (1994), is a segmented white canvas with a smeared, irregular blot faded into its surface. Suggestive at first glance of a stain beneath the skin, good and evil blurred, it is identified in the exhibition program as the depiction of a swastika, whitewashed over in a Paris suburb. According to the artists, the French authorities paint over persistent expressions of Neo-Nazi sympathy. Drancy's whitewash addresses the equally obscured period in French history of Vichy France complicity...
These lax punishments enraged Congress and devastated morale in the agency. Young case officers had chafed under the CIA's authoritarian bureaucracy and had been privately demanding a housecleaning. Sept. 28, the date Woolsey announced his punishments in the case, was dubbed "Whitewash Wednesday" by the disgruntled spies. After the announcement, the operations directorate opened a secret hotline so case officers could vent their complaints. It was flooded with so many angry calls that embarrassed officials shut it down after 24 hours...