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Word: crawliest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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With good reason. Behind his boyish smile, Tyte is one of the crawliest characters in recent fiction. He specializes in making a mockery of privacy. "Make-belief is all we have," he tells another actor, a woman who plays the part of an infant murderer in a television play. Tyte's personal script usually starts with the story that he was orphaned when his parents were killed in a train crash. In truth, Mom and Pop are in a retirement home that Francis never visits. Having eased his way on sympathy, he plays it by ear and keeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Banality of Deceit OTHER PEOPLE'S WORLDS | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

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