Word: candor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that." The worst seemed past and, even more important, Mondale felt his instincts about Ferraro had been vindicated. After her "superb performance," he told reporters, "I'm even more confident that I made the right choice. There has been a clear demonstration here of leadership, of strength, of candor, of values that the American people will respond to favorably...
...have a staff of hundreds of reporters to check every book we publish. We start from the assumption that it's the author's book. If it isn't libelous, the weight of responsibility is to let the author tell his story." Korda's candor may come as a shock to laymen who think of newspapers as being edited in a hurry, with facts assembled as best they can be on short notice, while a book is slowly gestated, relentlessly checked, permanently bound and meant to endure. But the rush is on at a number...
...Always distrust professed honesty," says Scumbler, an aging, defiantly bohemian American painter in Paris. "It's the ultimate con job." This seems an odd assertion from a character whose narrative is one long profession of emotional candor, sensitivity, creativity and individuality. William Wharton's novel is no con job, however, but something perhaps harder to take: a credo of total, devout and sometimes excruciating sincerity...
...cultural consciousness. In the early 1970s, a bracing dose of social realism was injected into a genre previously dominated by white picket fences, pipe-smoking fathers, mischievous genies and flying nuns. Sitcoms began to tackle controversial issues, from racial bigotry to abortion, and to portray, often with biting candor, the way contemporary adults interact with one another at home and in the workplace. Sitcoms kept people home nights, inspired fads and catch phrases and created stars...
...interview, Stringer confides with startling candor his doubts about Producer George Crile, principal reporter for the 1982 documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, that prompted the Westmoreland suit. "We have our own suspicions about George Crile," says Stringer, speaking supposedly off the record shortly after the broadcast. Speculating about whether Crile might have cut corners in his reporting, Stringer remarks, "I should have known I wouldn't get fair journalism off him." As executive producer of the show, Stringer is expected to be a key witness in CBS'S defense, but his taped words seem to contradict...