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...sainted JFK was a good guy and that the Vietnam war was bad, bad, bad. How could the former be even partially accountable for the latter? To resolve that unseemly dissonance, Stone indulges in what is at best a ridiculous oversimplification of some very complicated politics, and at worst deceit...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: Stoned: JFK's Revision of the '60s | 1/15/1992 | See Source »

...Lion in Winter--by Jeff Goldman. December, 1156. The royal family meets to celebrate Christmas and engages in a battle of cutting wit, unscrupulous deceit and shameless manipulation as they fight for control, vengeance and the English throne. In the Loeb Experimental Theater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 12/12/1991 | See Source »

...systematic deceit goes back to the first unbelievable pronouncement that the Germanic Museum was no longer suitable for housing its collections because an adequate air-conditioning system would be too expensive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Architecture Is Busch-League | 11/6/1991 | See Source »

...this is at heart a movie about the power of a beautiful, fearless woman. In Kidman, an improbable amalgam of Sigourney Weaver and Melanie Griffith, Benton found Drew's embodiment. Toward the end, when she flies out of two men's lives, she seems an airborne goddess of artful deceit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Extra! Billy Bathgate Lives! | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

Even as countries strove to pierce the veil of deceit and corruption that shrouds B.C.C.I., fresh disclosures of the bank's influence peddling came to light. TIME has learned that Pharaon helped keep CenTrust open for a year longer than its bankrupt condition warranted after acquiring a total of 1.5 million CenTrust shares, or more than 5% of the S&L's stock, in 1988 and 1989. CenTrust was so shaky by late 1988 that regulators for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in Atlanta had decided to shut it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandals: Cashing In on Blue Chips | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

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