Word: whitewash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...veterans, for their part, say they are well aware of the grim nature of the subject. They are not asking for a whitewash. "Nobody is looking for glorification," says Correll. "Just be fair. Tell both sides...
...half weeks before the committee was scheduled to open televised hearings in May 1973, Nixon made a stunning announcement: his two chief White House aides, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, were resigning, as were Attorney General Richard Kleindienst (who had succeeded Mitchell) and White House attorney ! Dean. "There can be no whitewash at the White House," Nixon said...
...philosophy, Invisible Man is the story of a Candide of color. Down home, our unnamed hero is given a scholarship by the white gentry, then forced by these same burghers to fight other blacks blindfolded. Up North, he works in a paint factory; its metaphorical function is to whitewash the American experience into the American dream. He is the guinea pig of medical sadists and firebrand communists. He is the wary friend of "Ras the Destroyer," a prototype of black militancy...