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Flack

(flak),
Martin W., British physiologist, 1882-1931. See: Flack node, Keith and Flack node.
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ButLove Islandqueen Caroline Flack took some risks on Sunday's Aftersun - and didn't totally pull it off.
Caroline Flack's bizarre curtain outfit draws a very mixed response; Some adored it and others hated it - but what did you think of the Love Island host's Aftersun dress?
Rob Rosenthal and Richard Flacks' Playing For Change: Music and Musicians in the Service of Social Movements is a fascinating study that examines how music can serve social movements in significant ways.
Rob Rosenthal and Richard Flacks, Playing For Change: Music and Musicians in the Service of Social Movements
As one flack says, "Everyone at the studio thinks they have the right to call you and complain."
Flight of the flacks: studios' PR pressure cooker stirs turnover
What got left out of "Quacks and Flacks" are the reasons many people have turned to alternative medicine in the first place.
Quacks and Flacks
"Shoot the paper airplanes one at a time at the PR flacks that pop up from behind their cubicles (everyone knows that a flack can't stay out of sight for too long)," the instructions note.
How to catch flack
Not exactly a bunch of "flacks," as the authors imply, and, presumably, the First Amendment still permits the freedom to express one's views, even if they don't like them.
LETTERS to the Editor
The key positions went to campaign organizers and media flacks who could channel the taxpayers' largesse and the Congress's "free media" into a steady stream of favorable publicity that no lurking opponent could hope to match.
House Rules: A Freshman Congressman's Initiation to the Backslapping, Backpeddling, and Backstabbing Ways of Washington
Today it's a $10-billion-a-year business employing, according to Stauber and Rampton, 150,000 "flacks"--20,000 more than the number of working journalists in this country.
Toxic Sludge Is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies, and the Public-Relations Industry

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