Word: whitewashed
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That reference was probably more controversial than anything you will see on Skin; it's really no more risque than several new fall shows--NBC's Coupling and Las Vegas, say--and less so than basic-cable fare like FX's Nip/Tuck. If anything, it may whitewash porn by showing only its most telegenic, soft-core side. The big risk Skin takes is with Goldman, who makes a surprisingly appealing flesh peddler. You could mistake him for the respectable entertainment mogul that he believes he is. Like Satan in Paradise Lost, he's the devil who gets all the best...
...Many were receiving fresh coats of whitewash and were flying new, brightly colored regimental flags. Officers were supervising repairs to some forts, and earth-moving equipment were being used to build trenches and protective mounds of soil. A few forts were also being supplied with water and other provisions. Small detachments of soldiers were being transported in both directions of the highway, on pickup trucks; a few armored personnel carriers and mobile artillery pieces were also on the move...
Brown poses an immediate challenge in Harvard’s quest for a successful finish. The Bears crushed Harvard 4-0 in the season opener for both teams. The listless Crimson was unable to crack star Bear goaltender Yann Danis, who stopped 30 shots in the whitewash. Danis already holds the Brown record for shutouts despite less than two full years of experience...
What Trent Lott tried to do was whitewash the present, not the past [NATION, Dec. 23]. There is no evidence that the Senate's former majority leader finds integration and equal rights any less offensive now than he did years ago. LAURA BILLINGTON Maple Valley, Wash...
What happened with Tom Paulin is no different. Paulin is not simply someone who supports Palestinian rights, as you try to whitewash him. He is someone who has said that Brooklyn-born Jews living in the West Bank should be killed (infants too?), that they are all Nazis worthy of hatred. Such a person, whatever his accomplishments as a poet, has no place in a world of civilized discourse...