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...There's no baloney with Grandma," Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy's grandson Christopher Lawford observes toward the end of this book. Christopher's young cousin, John F. Kennedy Jr., explains: Rose likes you to learn a lot, and she gives you plenty of cake...
...taking place. Ben-Veniste said the silences were several minutes long. Yet persons familiar with the White House system contend that it shuts off automatically if no additonal sound is heard within about 10 seconds. As for a clock possibly triggering the mechanism, TIME'S Government expert scoffs: "Baloney. One microphone in the President's office was hidden in a clock...
...turn out products that are in demand. They also argue that their industry is intensely competitive. Says a Texaco spokesman: "No single company has as much as 12% of the crude production, refining capacity or product sales." Atlantic Richfield President Thornton Bradshaw sums up industry feeling about the charges: "Baloney...
...Baloney," retorted Joyce "The Happy Hookslider" Heard, ace Crime second baseperson. "They threw that same Box Brastraps malarkey after we ran 'em off the court this winter," added Heard, whose pivot work was pivotal in the Crime's 23-2 overtime triumph on the hardwood over the Administration earlier this year...
...worse books have been written for better motives, however, and despite the overcomplicated substructure, Buckholz's novel is an intermittent delight. The author is the best free-associating baloney stuffer since Richard Condon got tired. Matthew Mendelsohn's lies are good lies indeed -grossly outrageous and very funny. There is the lie of the Jewish Miss Universe, the lie of Matthew's buddy's on-the-battlefield commission, the truly evil-minded lie of Rosa the Kisser. Each is an authentic zircon, guaranteed to scratch cheese, free of defects for 90 days, less parts and labor...