Word: falsehoods
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...give equal play to Soviet denials of a role in the assassination attempt, L'Humanite piously said, was "serious, serious for democracy." Added the newspaper, in one of 1982's most ironic statements: "When you only hear one bell struck, you can't distinguish truth from falsehood. When you're only given one opinion, always the same, it's your independence of mind, your chance to judge for yourself, that's threatened...
...borrow from its disability insurance and Medicare funds. Even with that authority extended, Social Security is predicted to go broke in 1984. At week's end, concerned that Republicans were being hurt at the polls by the Social Security issue, Reagan denounced the Democrats for spreading the "falsehood" that he planned to cut benefits for retirees...
Moreover, the production is marred by sloppy choreography and staging and a poorly-designed set. Shakily rising backdrops add an unintended element of suspense to the play, and the great flight of painted stairs becomes no longer artifice but annoying falsehood when characters declare, "Let's go upstairs" and then walk off stage right. Scenes that take place on an unsightly platform upstage of the backdrop only send weak voices farther from the audience...
...Ronald Reagan, Idealist: "In the face of a climate of falsehood and misinformation, we have promised the world a season of truth--the truth of our great civilized ideas; individual liberty, representative government, the rule of law under...
...Daily, the official party paper, confesses to its 6 million readers that until recently its guiding principle had been: "News is lies. No great task is ever accomplished without deceiving people." The People's Daily now proclaims, with that delicacy of language so characteristic of Communist polemics, "Falsehood in news is like rat droppings in clear soup...