Word: bullshitting
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...ratings, and Max Schumacher (William Holden), the head of UBS News, tells him he has to go. Suffering a momentary nervous breakdown, Beale goes on air to announce that in a week's time he will shoot himself on-camera. He has, he says, run out of the "bullshit" that kept him going...
...hear. Says Harvard's Richard Lewontin, an evolutionary biologist: "This is fundamentally a very conservative world view, which serves the very important function of saying that there is no sense in rocking the boat-we are what our genes make us-and I think that's bullshit." Lewontin is hardly alone. Marxist anthropologists criticize sociobiology as a rationale for reactionary capitalism, and feminists score it as a defense of male dominance. Others fear it will be used to support the notion that there is a genetic basis for racial differences in intelligence...
...week he will blow his brains out on-camera; that network executives would allow him back on the air in order to make a somewhat more dignified exit and then, when he crosses them up and announces that his trouble is that he has "run out of bullshit," they would not instantly cut him off the air; that the resulting publicity would cause the network to reverse its decision and put the man on as a regularly scheduled Mad Prophet of the airways; that emboldened by this success, the executives would grant a weekly slice of prime time...
...Bullshit, Bullshit...
...down the crowd mike," Staeckel screamed as the Harvard partisans chanted "Bullshit, Bullshit," in response to a controversial penalty call. The network has never had a love affair going with the rowdy Harvard faithful and the more outrageous band. Last year, ABC refused to show the Harvard halftime show because of a 1973 incident in which a rather spicy presentation embarassed the ABC brass...