Word: innuendo
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...opinion, your article on smokeless tobacco [MEDICINE, July 15] was short on facts and long on emotionalism and innuendo. You totally ignored the large body of public testimony by eminent medical experts about the lack of scientific justification for health-warning labels on the products. I thought it was unfair and unbalanced reporting of a complex and important issue. TIME readers deserve better. Louis F. Bantle, Chairman U.S. Tobacco Greenwich, Conn...
After Healey's picture was shown, Dolan called him "a longtime apologist for the Soviet Union, who himself was a member of the Communist Party. I think that would have been significant to point out in the story." This nasty McCarthyite innuendo went unchallenged on Today. The "significant" thing that Dolan did not say about Healey is that as Defense Minister from 1964 to 1970 he earned the enmity of the British Left as a wholehearted supporter of the Western alliance. This is a foretaste of what unbalanced journalism might be like...
...experience. The consensus, perhaps predictably, was “no.” For some reason, “Beat It” appears to be Harvard’s favorite Jackson song—is it because of the song’s alienation fantasy or sexual innuendo...
...genres combined to create 70s porn. One, shown in theaters, was the soft-core sex film: basically a low-budget fiction feature with heavy-breathing innuendo, simulated lovemaking and the occasional, calculated exposure of skin (They were called skin flicks.) The genre boomed in 1959 with the smash success of Russ Meyer's nudie comedy The Immoral Mr. Teas, which cued a five-year run of so-called nudie-cuties. Says prime sexploitation showman Dave Friedman: "Nudie-cuties were very rigid in their construction -you had the boy/girl scene, the girl/girl scene, the orgy scene, and then the kiss...
stinging rumor, swollen innuendo...