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...abilities but a chamber version. Stripped of narrative, the voices are free to play off each other. They may also offer the most delicious deception of all. Could this skeletal novel be just loosely stitched exercises from Roth's notebooks? Mirrors, mirrors on the wall, who's the falsest of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost in The Fun House | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

...projects as Physicist Ernest Lawrence's cyclotron studies. Financier Norton Simon, calling on his own business experience, warned against any budgeting that reduces the quality of the product. "I wouldn't tear down the very root of what's been built," he declared. "This is the falsest kind of economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Battle over a Budget | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

Before Bailey's researchers could get on with their case, they had first to deal with the matter of Al Smith. "The 'Al Smith myth,' " says the paper, "is one of the falsest myths in politics. The year 1928 was a Republican year, regardless of who was on either ticket. It was a year for 'drys' like Hoover, not 'wets' like Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: CAN A CATHOLIC WIN? | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...anxious to see you because the country is passing through a panic crisis which must be combatted. The falsest reports are circulating. Yesterday it was a raid at Amiens, where no raids were made. Today it is a story of stolen machine guns at Longuyon, equally untrue. What is serious is that this neurosis is spreading daily. Foreigners are growing anxious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Red Terror | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

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