Word: blarney
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...examination of conscience." He is also volubly aware that the culture of violence that has haunted his country's history was embodied by Collins and his cohorts. Jordan therefore owes to the present, as well as to the past that shaped it, something more than the higher blarney of his interviews and his press releases. He owes us--not to mention the fascinatingly ambiguous figure of Michael Collins--a rigorous and nuanced honesty instead of the admittedly entertaining fantasia on historical themes that he has delivered...
...Conroy's new novel Beach Music (Doubleday; 628 pages; $27.50) jumps onto your lap like a large shaggy dog that will do anything to get your attention. It's friendly but still has teeth, like The Prince of Tides with its theme of family violence barely concealed in Southern blarney. Beach Music's Jack McCall has his own troublesome clan in South Carolina. His father the Judge is a brilliant drunk. Mom is a former striptease dancer, feisty cancer patient and savior of threatened loggerhead turtles. McCall's brothers include a hermit who lives in a tree house. Friends...
...temptation to call "The Secret of Roan Inish" an outrageous bit of Irish Blarney is difficult to resist. This movie swings from realism to fantasy as it portrays the shenanigans of an isolated family in Northwest Ireland when they start believing their own far-fetched lore...
...share of the Celtics has been better than money in the bank, and 90,000 unit holders can say the team belongs to them. Team officials once received a copy of a newspaper story about a Bostonian who got married in Ireland. The headline said: CELTICS OWNER WED AT BLARNEY STONE. They looked the guy up. He owned two units...
...proceeds to a record of his own long years of drinking (his often passionate column for the New York Post, his marriage that broke up over drinking, his relationship with the actress Shirley MacLaine), it begins to replicate too much of the smelly boasting and belligerent noise of a Blarney Stone bar on St. Patrick's Day -- a time and place that most sane people consider hellish, even if Hamill does...