Word: dishonestly
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Brooks' different routines all fall into a coherent pattern. Each of the characters he assumes is a charlatan, a famous "celebrity" whose every move is dishonest and phony. Yet there is honesty in the dishonesty. The roles are forced on the Brooksian characters by their society; inevitably the "celebrities" haplessly reveal the hollow core beneath their moral and cultural pretensions. Their dogged ineptitude at falsifying themselves arouses our compassion rather than our distaste...
...added that anyone who trespassed to appear in an obstructive demonstration should be approached "through the intermediary of a court." But even at that, the University's case with respect to Ryan's alleged appearance at the May 8 picket line was at best incompetent and at worst dishonest. Harnett, the University's sole witness, could not even say that Ryan was in fact demonstrating. And given Harnett's ambivalence about what Ryan was doing at Harvard, one is tempted to conclude that the University had equally ambivalent motives in pressing the charge...
...acted remotely like a gentleman, only like a sour, spoiled, self-indulgent brat. Besides, Mrs. Hasseltine is in the weakest position to raise any moral questions since it is she who has maligned an innocent man's character. Even as plot jockeying, this kind of dishonest playwriting does not pay, for the audience feels in the end that the emotion, interest and belief that it has invested in the play have all been exploited and betrayed...
...young people become more restive and their politics more violent, movies about them become more offensive condescending and dishonest. Some invidious ratio is at work here, witness the latest entry in the let's-make-money-off-the-kids sweepstakes, Stanley Kramer's R.P.M. The initials stand for "revolutions per minute" and a movie noteworthy for nastiness. Even The Strawberry Statement, MGM's pasteurized primer on revolution, looks by comparison like Mao's Little Red Book...
...deciphering the record of the only contestant-out of nine-who did not return. Before they were through, they went far beyond Donald Crowhurst's logs. The resulting book is a portrait of the ill-fated adventurer as well as an examination of his tragic voyage and dishonest messages. It is about a man who attempted an elaborate fraud, went slowly insane, and then apparently committed suicide-written with considerable perception and evident care. Crowhurst's widow cooperated with the authors, who refuse to condemn the all too common weaknesses of the book's protagonist, though their...