Word: dishonestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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STARR Bureaucrat. "He'd be good as a loss-prevention specialist, ferreting out dishonest employees...
...votes he is counting on to cling to power," he asks Hollings. Hardly a Clinton buddy--he bucked him on the right to negotiate trade deals on a fast track and joked about his dating habits--Hollings considered asking for the President's resignation. He called him dishonest instead...
...seem a perfectly apt tribute to the inventor of psychoanalysis. But three years ago it appeared in danger of never opening at all. A band of scholars objected that the exhibit, though still being assembled, would be a fawning tribute to a figure who was outdated at best, a dishonest quack at worst. Library officials, stunned to find themselves thrust into a battle they were not prepared for, postponed the show, claiming lack of funds. Yet now the exhibit is about to open with hardly a peep. What happened...
...inflicted on the nation is that he has given Starr credibility. Clinton has made it impossible for us to criticize Starr's methods and acts without seeming to defend Clinton's. And Starr is far more dangerous. If honesty is the test, Starr fails: this was and is a dishonest investigation. He gleefully created crimes by asking questions that should never have been asked, knowing that no person could answer them honestly without hurting others and so would be tempted to lie. Clinton's lies are low crimes and misdemeanors. His punishment should be, at most, censure, but it seems...
...plusher experience for the viewer than is usual on TV. What really makes Felicity enjoyable, though, is that despite its requisite melodrama, it is emotionally plausible and endearing. In this it is very different from its demographic stablemates Dawson's Creek and Fox's Ally McBeal, which are dishonest to their core and as a result impossibly irritating to watch. Felicity, instead, manages to be pretty good, gooey, yearning, adolescent fun. Not bad for a first...