Word: deceitfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gradually, however, this small world begins to be shadowed by larger forces. Gustad does a favor for an old friend and watches helplessly as the deceit spreads like an infection. His son tries to fight free of his father's plans for him. And the Zoroastrians find themselves menaced by the demon of Indian life, communalism...
BUSINESS: Deceit pervaded an audacious global bank that touched Jimmy Carter and Manuel Noriega, among others...
...onomatopoetics of anguish (and perverse exhilaration) as rendered by Tom Wolfe toward the end of The Bonfire of the Vanities. They are the sounds made by his protagonist, Sherman McCoy, as he at last acknowledges that he is an all too human animal: capable of rage and deceit and all the other low emotions that people educated at Yale, working on Wall Street and living on Park Avenue usually never discover within themselves, let alone admit in public. They are also the sounds of a man abandoning the last defense of privilege: clever, distancing and self-deluding articulateness. And they...
Jerry has perhaps the play's most complex views on the topic, but Ducey unfortunately gives the most wooden performance. He has strong material with which to work; Jerry's insistence that he is bothered only by the revelation of deceit rather than the deceit itself is fascinating. But Ducey spends so much time staring at the floor or posing like James Dean that he manages to hold the audience's attention only sporadically...
...political contributions in delaying crackdowns by regulators, even the deceptive lure of junk bonds and their king, Michael Milken. It is not a case history of nice guys being caught innocently in an oil bust, as the defunct thrift's managers often claim. It is a study in greed, deceit and profiteering...