Word: debunkment
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Critics have tried to debunk Reed's enthusiasm for Russia, and his book, which Lamont calls "the best in the Revolution," by calling Reed a "playboy" and a "lost revolutionary...
...escalated some 1,500% (a major drip painting by Pollock now brings upwards of $100,000). Matters have even reached the stage where, when Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week opened an immense Pollock retrospective, some critics decided that it was high time to begin to debunk the "myth" of his achievement. Sniffed the New York Times's Hilton Kramer: "An interesting artist of, say, the third class. It is only the poverty of our own artistic values that has elevated his accomplishment into something higher...
Despite his differences with Manchester, Roberts' main mission in Truth is to debunk the tomes purporting to prove-contrary to the Warren Commission findings-that J.F.K. was the victim of a conspiracy. On this question, Manchester and Roberts are in accord. Lincoln's body was disinterred four times, and Roberts speculates that the widespread doubts about the assassination raised by the conspiracy mongers may in time lead to demands that John Kennedy's remains also be unearthed...
TIME went to press last week only a few hours after the undefeated Notre Dame football team met undefeated Oklahoma-and trounced it 38-0. With Quarterback Terry Hanratty and End Jim Seymour on our cover, it seems a good time to debunk the TIME "cover jinx." If an athlete dares to show his face on TIME'S cover, so the old legend goes, he is doomed...
...latter quotation can also be read as "Look at me. I am different. I don't like what other people like. Miss Sontag would debunk ice cream if she could find a publisher. She even comes out against truth...