Word: canting
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This illusion, largely abandoned by European intellectuals, remains dogma in American academe, and one quails to think what torrents of Marxist catalog cant might have drowned this exhibition if it had been done in the U.S. But there is little jargon in the catalog of "Age of the Metropolis" and none in the show itself; it is an intelligent wide-screen movie, generous in spirit, provocative and full of good things...
...little bit like Maggie Thatcher. I don't think he's of her stature. (I must say of all the politicians I've disliked in my life, she has the most stature. Her only equal in the world was Gorbachev.) Like Thatcher, Bush is full of cant -- he believes what it is necessary for him to believe at any given moment. No philosophy whatsoever...
...love the idea of a left conservative because it gets rid of political cant. We're stifling in it. One of the diseases of the right is self- righteousness. I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation...
...single-handedly created a boom in music-video sales. That the image refracted in the media-crazed mirror never settles is hypnotizing. Her throwaway line "Experience has made me rich/ And now they're after me," from her tune Material Girl, seems more a wily prophecy than mere egoistic cant. Her latest public catharsis -- a quantum artistic growth spurt, if you will -- is Truth or Dare. It is a panoramic, emetic, beauty-marks-and-all, feature-length autobiographical documentary shot during her Blond Ambition tour. The film, which opens nationally on May 17, is a celebrity voyeur's feast that...
...friends of his son's college prospects, singing The Donkey Serenade to his ailing daughter. The details of his life are wonderfully exact: a bottle of Camel Royal Blue Ink, old copies of Bertrand Russell, an 1897 edition of Barrere and Leland's Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant. And Mistry catches the pungent cadences of Indian English as they have seldom been caught before: "What everything have you told them? Always I shout and scream, while nice Daddy watches quietly...