Word: deceits
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...home of Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, president of a local Catholic university, and the recriminations that followed, confirmed the extent to which the battle for custody over Elian has become a showdown between Havana and Miami's Little Havana. The Cuban government accused O'Laughlin of lying, cruelty and deceit in her handling of the encounter, while the Dominican nun shot back that the event had been plagued by fear instilled by Havana in the hearts of the grandmothers - and Elian's Florida relatives allowed a leader of the exile community to interview the boy on a live TV broadcast...
...crime writers are killers, all actors are liars--Ripleys for their art and glory. Highsmith's Tom thinks of himself in moments of stress as a consummate actor thrilled by the conviction of his deceit. "If you wanted to be cheerful, or melancholic, or wistful, or thoughtful, or courteous," he observes, "you simply had to act those things with every gesture." What is acting if not the forgery of someone else's personality in order to possess and consume...
...soldiers for their part are allowed to serve as long as they keep their sex lives private. But the policy's many critics charge that this is not a realistic assessment of what happens in the barracks and that the policy actually creates a poisonous atmosphere of suspicion and deceit within the ranks. Clinton says the policy is the best he could hope for against opposition from Congress and the military. Increasingly, though, it looks like the solution is part of the problem...
...perfect setting for a two-and a half-hour play laden with treachery, deceit, romance and tragedy...
...emotional territory of Simpatico, the most recent work by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard, is something familiar to Kellerman. His production last year of David Mamet's American Buffalo in the Loeb Ex explored the same realm of underworld deceit and betrayal, the same search for loyalty and friendship that marks this play. That is not to say Simpatico is a large scale retreading of the same dramatic ground Kellerman mapped so clearly last year. Sam Shepard is not David Mamet. He isn't able to maintain the same level of unshaking intensity that Mamet can create...