Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the criticism leveled at SI's annual swimwear review focuses on the seemingly paradoxical juxtaposition the magazine's usual apple-pie and Chevrolet subject matter with a thinly disguised exhibition of T&A. Unfortunately, however, there is no paradox at all. Sports Illustrated is the propaganda organ of the permanent adolescence of American men: media heroes, big pictures and sports. The list wouldn't be complete without adolescent sexual fantasies...
With only days to go before this week's presidential election, Marcos did not sound like an indomitable incumbent. Miffed at press reports casting doubt on his wartime record and personal finances, he angrily denounced those "now ! engaged in rumor-mongering and black propaganda." He suggested that the reports emanated from the "dirty tricks department" of Challenger Corazon Aquino's "desperate campaign." Late in the week, Marcos announced that the military had uncovered a plot to assassinate him while he was on a campaign trip to Iloilo City...
Rushed timing is not the only indication that Harvard has been trying to use internships against the divestment movement. Dolf Berle, who went on an Eliot House-funded internship last June, wrote a veritable propaganda piece in the Harvard Gazette last month toeing the University's line on corporate involvement. He was also sent by the University to a student conference on South Africa during January. The conference invited students from other universities by sending letters to their deans asking for students interested in the anti-apartheid movement or student government. However, Harvard officials never notified SASC of the conference...
...carefully choreographed: a stream of local entertainers kept the crowd's attention until Marcos, looking drawn, tired and weak, was escorted to the podium. The President joked about rumors that he had suffered a physical collapse, and dismissed reports of his obvious ill health as so much "black propaganda." Wife Imelda by his side, Marcos then made a fervent pitch for support as a bulwark against the growing Communist-led insurgency that is stalking the country. Said he defiantly: "Once a champion, always a champion...
...1970s, a Congressional investigation revealed that the CIA had secretly funded hundreds of books in the United States and abroad in an attempt to counter Soviet propaganda efforts...