Word: bullshitting
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...even more severely, say the picture is not so gloomy. "Every day some city manager or another is spouting off that this would be a disaster...They say the libraries will have to be closed or some such," Jim Sledd, public relations director for Associated Industries, says. "It's bullshit," he adds. In the first place, Sledd says, the tax cuts would be good for business, and that would mean expansion and hence more tax revenue. Greg Hyatt, executive director of Citizens for Limited Taxation, suggested another tonic for troubled cities--states might increase local aid to compensate for decreasing...
...active libido in assorted hopeful chorines. He drives everyone hard, but himself the hardest ("To be on the wire is life; the rest is nothing"), waking up with Dexedrine and cigarettes--a tortured, uncompromising bastard. He is also a song-and-dance man, who doesn't know "where the bullshit ends and the truth begins." "I got insight into you, Gideon," says the actor playing the stand-up comic, who exists in the movie to say the following lines: "There's a deep-rooted fear of being conventional... the dreadful fear that you're ordinary--not special." All That Jazz...
...furious cutting, multiple perspectives and numerous alienation devices cannot help shifting attention to the man behind the camera and his relationship to the film audience. (If the cutting is any indication, Fosse is back on Dexedrine.) One wonders whether Bob Fosse, like Joe Gideon, really knows where the bullshit ends and the truth begins. This kind of work is the last resort of the bullshit artist trying to express the truth, by giving you the bullshit and simultaneously telling you it's bullshit--which leaves us, of course, back where we started...
...through adolescence. Says he: "You can't change anybody. All you can do is set up a supportive, warm, natural environment and then a natural process takes over." But all is not sweetness and light. At endless and merciless dorm meetings, rationalizations and excuses are brusquely dismissed as "bullshit," perhaps the most commonly used word on campus...
...this as an accepting, caring place," says a girl named Lisa. From across the room comes the commentary of a fellow student: "Do you believe that? I have a hard time believing anything you say." Admits Lisa: "I bullshit a lot." In a therapeutic community, no one is ever offstage, and Lisa's reputation for lying will make every conversation a confrontation until she breaks the habit...