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Sexed up - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sexed up refers to making something appear more attractive than it really is by selective presentation; a modern update to the phrase "hyped up". It is presumably based on the older phrase "sex sells", which means that, for example, the more beautiful the people in advertisements, the more likely people will purchase the product. It was probably coined in the 1980s or 1990s in Britain or the US, although Pat Benatar used the variation "sex s.o. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sexed_up   (200 words)

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Red box | Erection time For "sexed up" was certainly the phrase used in the original accusation and everywhere embraced by the Prime Minister's critics. The original allegation, apparently made to the BBC by a senior security official, was that the government had asked for the report on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to be "sexed up". In an infamous example of the usage, Robbie Williams wrote a song, "Sexed Up", as an attack on ex-lover Nicole Appleton. politics.guardian.co.uk /redbox/story/0,9029,970061,00.html   (422 words)

Sexed Up For something to be 'sexed' is to determine its gender, but 'to sex up' is more akin to 'sexy up' or make more 'sexy'. I'm not sure whether Gilligan wanted to imply the existence of more phallus-shaped missiles threatening to explode and spray their (pay)load over unwilling participants, but to make a dossier more 'sexy' is not the greatest of analogies. For something to be made more 'sexy' is for it to be made more appealing and interesting - which is the use that was made in 'sexing up' the dossier. www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/27/messages/809.html   (360 words)

Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Sexed scandal And though Newsday recently called sexed up ``salacious,'' and Glasgow's Herald branded it ``vulgar,'' the term is neither—though what it's describing may well be both. Before sex up, of course, there was sexy—though not long before: Sexy is a surprisingly recent term. Sex up, meanwhile, had debuted in the 1940s, at first meaning literally to add carnal appeal to a movie or character. www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/08/10/sexed_up?mode=PF   (683 words)

Kelly, David Christopher - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Kelly, David Christopher Kelly was called to give evidence before the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on 15 July, at which time he said he did not believe he was the main source. On 17 July he committed suicide, which led to the setting up of the Hutton inquiry (see Hutton report) to examine the events surrounding his death. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Kelly,+David+Christopher   (201 words)

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Truth behind those 'sexed up' claims At the last count, the phrase "sexed up" had been used in 545 articles, formed the basis of 22 newspaper headlines and been the subject of countless readers' letters since Andrew Gilligan's infamous story broke on May 29. Within hours of John Humphrys' "sexed up" reference, the London Evening Standard had printed the transcript of the interview under the headline "Radio roasting for Army Minister", and by 10pm even the usually conservative Trevor McDonald was referring to the "sexed-up" dossier on the ITV News. The Guardian has used "sexed up" 54 times in relation to Iraq since May 29 - the first appearance of the phrase on June 2, the day after Andrew Gilligan accused Alastair Campbell of inserting the key 45-minute claim in the Iraq dossier in the Mail on Sunday. www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1003112,00.html   (901 words)

Political Animal: Comment on "Sexed Up" "Sexed up" is a pretty common expresson in the Commonwealth...or "tarted up", the east coast Canadian version. Up to now what we have heard about Dr. Kelly's intelligence credentials have mainly come from the British government and may be nothing more than a Blairite damage control operation. If the government 'sexed up' the dossier, which most people think is pretty much true, then obviously its Director of Communications, and a man the PM can't (it seems) do anything without his permission, would be involved in sexing it up. www.washingtonmonthly.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1714   (2934 words)

Sexed Up - The Education Forum He is referring to the fact that Andrew Gilligan used the term “sexed up” in his broadcast. It has generally been attributed with connotations you've suggested apply: To glamorize or unduly exaggerate a claim is to "sex it up" according to the most vogue etymology (if such terms may be fairly used with respect to "slang" phrases like this one. Yes John, we currently have the slang term 'sexed up' in vogue as it were among several journalists and it is I must say a bit farcical. educationforum.ipbhost.com /index.php?showtopic=296   (1016 words)

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | David Clark: Blair sexed up the case for war These concerns were also evident in the rather desperate last-minute plea issued by John Scarlett for the intelligence agencies to scrape the bottom of the barrel for anything they might have overlooked. It was the realisation of how shaky the government's case was that led to the second, more important stage of Britain's intelligence failure on Iraq: the one that became famous over allegations of "sexing up". It was in this heightened atmosphere that the notorious 45-minute claim and other intelligence purporting to show that Iraq was continuing to produce chemical and biological weapons was passed on to Downing Street without being properly examined by the intelligence officers best placed to assess it. www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,1259805,00.html   (1235 words)

ChessBase.com - Chess News - Maria Manakova in Speed In a recent interview she spoke frankly about sex and chess, and also posed for the cover of a Russian rag magazine. People started to think about me as a specialist in sex because I once said that a woman should be woman all the time — at home, at work and at the chess board. It was conducted by Anna Dergatschova, who discussed Maria's feelings about being a “sex symbol” in the chess world, and how she hoped to promote chess by becoming famous as a journalist or a television personality. www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=1826   (939 words)

STATS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) It seems like sex is everywhere on TV these days, and a new study just made headlines by proving it scientifically. Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex.” But on closer inspection it turns out that the study itself was sexed up. The real story is far less dramatic -- TV sex is up somewhat since 2002, but the rate of increase is declining. www.stats.org /record.jsp?type=news&ID=525   (746 words)

Meghan Clyne on Sex Week & Yale on National Review Online According to event organizer and Yale senior Eric Rubenstein, Sex Week was supposed to open discussion about issues of love, intimacy, and romance, and was timed to coincide with Valentine's Day, to distract the many unattached Yalies who, Rubenstein says, are made lonely and depressed by the holiday. Sex Week was run by Students for a Sexually Aware Campus, an officially registered and university-approved "student organization," which (along with Sex Week) got a green light from Yale College Assistant Dean Edgar Letriz, who oversees administrative matters for student organizations (registration, funding, etc.). In the e-mail and on its site, Sex Week was touted as "the only event of its kind on any college campus." That's a relief — there are at least a few Sex Weeks to go before Yale introduces the Janet Jackson Chair in Cultural Studies. www.nationalreview.com /nr_comment/clyne200402170905.asp   (785 words)

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Sexed Up News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) He was tired too, he had to dig up the Finnie family septic tank and install a new one. I went up and picked up Cody Friday afternoon and we moved all my stuff across the river in a span of 3 hours. At the end, the moron that was renting the apartment showed up and I had to tell him I'd be getting my bed the next day. sexedupnews.blogspot.com   (2119 words)

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Dossier not 'sexed up' say MPs The committee came to its view, however, on the basis of the evidence presented to the committee, and will complain it was given insufficient access to the full drafts of assessments by the joint intelligence committee. It cleared him of the main charge that he had "sexed up" the key dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction published last September, by insisting that it said Iraq could have weapons deployed within 45 minutes of an order being issued. The committee decision came as the BBC gave the first signs that it may have mishandled aspects of the story by mounting an internal inquiry into whether sufficient effort was made to forewarn the government of the story. politics.guardian.co.uk /iraq/story/0,12956,991241,00.html   (835 words)

Blair 'Knew Iraq Had No WMD' His revelations, taken from a diary that he kept as a senior minister during the months leading up to war, are published today in The Sunday Times. The prime minister ignored the "large number of ministers who spoke up against the war", according to Cook. He reveals that in the months leading up to the war Downing Street aides, including Alastair Campbell, Blair's former director of communications, and Jonathan Powell, his chief of staff, were obsessed with not falling out with Washington. www.commondreams.org /headlines03/1005-01.htm   (1507 words)

The IdeaBlogue It is also doubtful that Berman is in anyway zenophobic or ethnocentrically biased, but then, one does not have to be to realize that the "multiculturalism" doctrine that all cultures are equally to be celebrated and none are deserving of criticism (except American culture, of course) is inherently both racist, and dangerous. But then again, that's probably why he writes for the Post-Intelligencer; while James Taranto seems to think it is thusly named because it is "intelligent as a post", I would offer that the post in "post-intelligencer" is the standard english prefix meaning "having gone past", or rather, "having left behind". Republicans picked up governorships in Kentucky and Mississippi, and the runoff election for Louisiana governor does not seem to be certain in favor of either party. ideablogue.blogspot.com   (6509 words)

NBC: Castro blasts Bush over sex charges - World News - MSNBC.com Bush earlier this month accused Castro of welcoming sex tourism to bolster his failing economy and contributing to a global problem of human trafficking. Bush suggesting that their real purpose was not to visit their families on the island but to engage in sex tourism?” Smith is among the Cuba-watchers who believe that Bush’s strident policy is designed to capture the Cuban American vote this November in the critical state of Florida. msnbc.msn.com /id/5526645   (716 words)

Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Dictionary's sexed up definition The term "sex up" takes its bow today between hard covers in The Language Report (Oxford University Press, £9.99), a book which calls itself "a frontline account of what we're saying". The phrase was used in the 1990s to indicate what a couple in a relationship do to each other. The author, the editor and translator Susie Dent, notes: "The phrase was particularly prominent in 2003 when the British government was accused of 'sexing up' intelligence reports on Iraq." books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,1058883,00.html   (218 words)

Iran: Sexed-up Reports, Pressure on the UN ... Here We Go Again It has too many soldiers tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan to spare many for a third campaign. The talk is of using US special forces or airstrikes to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities, or giving a green light to Israel to do it. Slightly less impatiently, there are hints that the CIA will step up its campaign to overthrow the regime in Tehran by encouraging anti-government TV and radio broadcasts from abroad and infiltrating opposition movements. www.commondreams.org /views04/0827-03.htm   (1188 words)

BBC NEWS | UK | Politics | Campbell makes BBC challenge In particular, the official claimed that Downing Street had asked for extra prominence to be given to the suggestion Iraq could launch a chemical or biological strike within 45 minutes of an order. Mr Campbell insisted intelligence agencies made the 45 minute reference and said claims he had hyped it up were a "lie". The story that I sexed up the (September) dossier is untrue. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/politics/3023840.stm   (802 words)

BBC NEWS | UK | Politics | Straw 'shifting story' over Iraq Downing Street has demanded the BBC apologise for reporting that a senior official had said the prominence given to the 45 minutes claim was part of the "sexing up" of a dossier on Iraq. The dossier was one of two issued by the government on Iraq - the second was the so-called "dodgy dossier" released earlier this year which plagiarised an academic work. The foreign secretary suggested BBC bosses were now showing doubts about their story over the "sexing up" of the first Iraq dossier. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/politics/3024670.stm   (855 words)

Sexed up: How London sold its war on Iraq Political careers are on the line with the imminent release, on February 28, of the report of the Hutton inquiry, chaired by Lord Hutton, set up last year to conduct an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly. As it turned out Gilligan, admitted that it was he, and not Kelly, who first uttered the phrase "sexed up"; Kelly merely repeated back to him the phrase that Gilligan first said. I think what subsequently happened in the reporting was that it was taken that the 45 minutes applied, let us say, to weapons of a longer range. www.informationclearinghouse.info /article5594.htm   (2074 words)

The Morning News - Sexed Up, by Rosecrans Baldwin The Morning News - Sexed Up, by Rosecrans Baldwin Claims about Iraq’s weapons were given too much weight by the government, MPs have ruled – but they have cleared media chief Alastair Campbell of ‘sexing up’ intelligence. [Foreign Secretary Jack Straw] said the suggestion that the dossier had been ‘sexed up’ was ‘a fundamental attack on the integrity of the prime minister and the government.’ www.themorningnews.org /archives/stories/sexed_up.php   (577 words)

CNN.com - Britain's September 2002 dossier - Jul. 18, 2003 But allegations were made that the government had "sexed up" parts of the document by inserting a section claiming Iraq had the capability to launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes of the order being given. The "sexed up" allegation saw the government become embroiled in a row with the BBC. The argument centered on a report by BBC defense correspondent Andrew Gilligan on the Today radio program quoting an unnamed source as saying a government official had "sexed up" part of the dossier against the intelligence service's wishes. www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/07/16/uk.dossier.sept02   (526 words)

P A L F L O A T The 12th annual Heathcliff parade caused quite a stir this week as dozens of attendants became unruly and began vicious riots. This year the parade took a turn for the worst as violence erupted, causing several injuries and sending more than 20 Heathcliff fanatics to the emergency room. Collins unusual death of being trapped inside of a piano, his family sold off the Heathcliff license in the 1950's to avoid being associated with the poisoned ideas William once had. www.palfloat.com /archives/00000100.htm   (463 words)

Hutton Inquiry - Report by Lord Hutton Downing Street … ordered a week before publication, ordered [the dossier] to be sexed up, to be made more exciting and ordered more facts to be err, to be discovered" and that at the behest of 10 Downing Street the dossier "was transformed in the week before it was published, to make it sexier …. Intelligence reports make clear that he sees the building up of his WMD capability, and the belief overseas that he would use these weapons, as vital to his strategic interests, and in particular his goal of regional domination. The 9th September assessment that intelligence indicates that chemical and biological munitions could be with military units and ready for firing within 20 to 45 minutes - that was the wording, the sense of which was accurately reflected in the redrafting on the 17th September of the dossier. www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk /content/report/chapter06.htm   (15928 words)

BBC NEWS | UK | Politics | Journalist defends weapons claims He said: "He was one of the senior British officials in charge of drawing up the dossier, a source of long standing well known to me." The document in which the 45 minutes claim was made was drawn up by the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), made up of civil servants and the intelligence services, and presented to Downing Street. Mr Gilligan said the 45 minutes claim was important because it went to the heart of the government's case that there was an immediate threat from Iraq. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/politics/3003296.stm   (898 words)

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