Word: dishonestly
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Safe Bet. Bhutto's troubles are largely of his own making. While Indira Gandhi went down to honest defeat, the Pakistani Prime Minister is reaping the bitter fruits of what was almost certainly a dishonest victory. Bhutto had called elections for much the same reason as the Indian leader. Hand-picked by the generals after Pakistan's debacle in the 1971 war over Bangladesh, he had ruled ever since under a state of emergency that, among other things, gagged the press and outlawed political assembly. Last January Bhutto called for elections to give his government a stamp...
...accurate is television's Roots as history? Novelist William Styron (The Confessions of Nat Turner) is harsher than most critics. Roots, he says, "is dishonest tripe. It took a crude mass-culture approach. It shows how dismally ignorant blacks and whites still are about slavery." As a number of critics have noted, there were, to start with, some errors of setting. Styron objects that "counties in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee which are as flat as Ping Pong paddles look as if they were shot on a back set used for horse operas with a background...
...upward mobility does. They are denied the legalistic safety nets of the rich, and they lack the street smarts to cut themselves in on such benefits of the poor as unemployment pay and food stamps. Since they are hopelessly overqualified for any available honest job, they turn to dishonest work. They begin a lucrative career as a holdup team...
...falls asleep at dinner parties. His wispy, graying locks go uncombed, his custom-made Savile Row suits look as if they had been bought at a manufacturer's fire sale-they do not disguise his paunch. He is variously described by associates and acquaintances as autocratic, devious, dishonest, rapacious, egotistical, power mad, paranoid, a bully and a boor. Almost in the same breath, the same people call Felker a genius. "He's always been tough, restless and driven," says George A. Hirsch, now publisher of New Times, who quit as publisher of New York after four years...
...bare-breasted native women. Lee Marvin, playing a bibulous adventurer named Flynn, and Roger Moore, appearing as Sebastian Oldsmith, an entirely too credulous old Eton boy fallen on hard times, alternately flail away at and consort with each other in a variety of cockeyed attempts to earn a dishonest dollar...