Word: innuendos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Writer Sally Quinn, who is known in Washington for her withering (some would say bitchy) profiles of prominent personalities. She outdid herself with the Brzezinski series, which contains a few blatantly smirky and sophomoric passages. She began the first installment with an account of how he had used sexual innuendo to rebuff her requests for an interview. "You'll just have to come out here and live with me," he is quoted as saying. "That's the only...
WHERE HAVE ALL the heroes gone? Our era's cynicism and suspicion have seen more and more former idols rudely picked off their pedestals as they fall victim to literary sharpshooters armed with innuendo and calumny. Self-annointed revisionists continue to issue one-sided tracts condemning JFK's affairs, Elvis's drug addiction, and Hemingway's latent homosexuality. To err may be human, but to forgive seems well beyond today's all-consuming passion to wallow in the filth of others--especially when that filth is a residue of the rich and renowned...
...THEIR WORST, political campaigns are not unlike trashy novels. In large measure they consist of contrived drama, timely coincidence, tawdry innuendo and caricatured protagonists indulging in fantastical posturing. They are memorable mainly for the deja vu they inspire. And they are getting longer and longer. And longer. If a presidential contest were a book, it would be thousands of pages long...
...MacArthur had discarded, and agreeing not to publish, for as long as the general lived, his love letters to her. At Eisenhower's request, correspondents had suppressed the Patton soldier slapping incident; Pearson considered Patton a warrior authoritarian and in wartime broke the story. Pearson hectored Forrestal with innuendo and false allegations while he was the nation's first Secretary of Defense; later, just before Forrestal killed himself, other reporters wrote discreetly of his nervous breakdown, but Pearson published an account of how Forrestal, at the sound of a fire alarm, had dashed out into the street crying...
...sounds like a sleazy enterprise, have no fear. Sleaziness has never stood in the way of fun on television. Ike is the show that NBC's Backstairs at the White House so desperately wanted to be: a trashy romp through famous events, laced with unprovable innuendo and raucous caricatures of public figures. As history, Ike is a waste of time, but as a time waster, it more than fills the bill...