Word: deceitfully
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Marcos is the first wife of a foreign head of state to stand trial in an American court. U.S. prosecutors say she wove a "spider's web of deceit and corruption" that stretched halfway around the world. With testimony from 95 witnesses, the prosecutors have outlined a tangled tale of secret Swiss bank accounts and laundered money, forged signatures and phony names, bribes and kickbacks, smuggled paintings, a phantom ship loaded with Japanese gold from World War II, and offshore shams and scams of such complexity that one wonders how the Marcoses ever had time to run their country...
ATTEMPTING to do the right thing amid an information blitz, we are like the victims of frequent brainwashing that the philosopher Hannah Arendt describes in an essay on political deceit. Contrary to what some might expect, persons subjected to a stream of media manipulation, instead of believing what ever new they are told, grow less impressionable, more cynical, more inclined to disbelieve everything even as more versions of the truth are fed them...
Avarice, arrogance, sleaze, fraud, carnal sin. Various American televangelists have already been accused of almost every imaginable transgression. What more could media-star ministers possibly be charged with? Answer: sloppy theology. That is precisely the theme of a new anthology, The Agony of Deceit, published by Chicago's fundamentalistic Moody Bible Institute (284 pages; $12.95). The book's twelve contributors (including former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who criticizes faith healing) have scoured books and sermon tapes and found the TV preachers guilty of egregious doctrinal heresy...
...evening wore on, I decided that life as a Washington Wife was not for me. I didn't like the deceit, the pressure or the other unseemly qualifications needed to help a politician. I also didn't relish the thought of doing all the work and getting none of the credit...
...tired of selling minks and perhaps of his wife, who was about to realize her own dreams of a family, dreams he did not share. As stupefying as it seems, Stuart apparently carried out his monstrous deed only to remake himself into a glamorous restaurateur. Against such vanity and deceit, as Carol Stuart -- and Boston -- found, there is no protection...