Word: fallaciously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Italy's Orlana Fallaci gets another probing interview...
...fact that newsmen in Tehran had paid little attention to an ambush by Kurdish rebels in which 52 Islamic militiamen were killed. But if the Western press is not to be trusted, why then did the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini sit for an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci? One factor, explained Nassiros-sadat Salami, the Iranian translator of Fallaci s book, Interview with History who served as interpreter, was Khomeini's acquaintance with a devastating interview that Fallaci had done with the Shah in 1973. The Shah, deeply offended, had it banned in Iran...
...interview with Fallaci was only the second that Khomeini has given to a Western journalist since his return from Pans last February (the first was to Eric Rouleau of Le Monde, in May). Fallaci's article was first published in the Milan daily Corriere della Sera, and appeared last week in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. The interview was also reprinted in two Tehran newspapers...
Although the interview, done in Fallaci's characteristically provocative style does not reflect it, she told TIME last week that she was impressed by Khomeini's great dignity and splendid bearing It was the first time that I have ever felt charisma." She was surprised by "the difference between the reality I saw there surrounding the Ayatullah and the way the Western press reports on him. The reality is that the people want...
...paid the price for my naiveté. The quotes ascribed to me, statements of marginal taste gathered together in what she presented as a conversation, were the most self-serving utterances of my entire public career. What drove Nixon up the wall was a quotation Fallaci put in my mo.uth: "Americans like the cowboy . . . who rides all alone into the town, the village, with his horse and nothing else . . . This amazing, romantic character suits me precisely because to be alone has always been part of my style or, if you like, my technique." I do not believe that I said...