Word: fibbing
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...Pilates session (ranging from about $38 to 60 each, depending on the studio) two to three times per week. For optimal results, the Pilates workouts should be complemented by regular cardiovascular exercise. So, as FM gossip columnists claim, was Madonna's Pilates coming-out party a bit of a fib...
Once upon a time, Presidents might have fudged the facts to a few Congressmen in smoke-filled rooms, but who was the wiser? If voters heard the words second- or thirdhand, how could they judge them? Now it's impossible to fib in obscurity. Americans can already mouth the words when they see the incessant reruns of that finger-jabbing image: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Sissela Bok, the high priestess of the scholars of lying, says the TV camera has made it far more dangerous for a President to prevaricate than it was 50 years...
Sometimes you have to teach your kids to fib--or at least learn one of the grownup versions: using a pseudonym. Online, it's the best way to defend your privacy. This often arises when you go to a web page looking for something like free, trial software. Many sites won't let you proceed to their goodies without divulging some personal data--which they will shamelessly rent, sell or trade to who knows whom. So I simply make up a name, address, phone number, zip code or e-mail address. And I encourage my children to do the same...
When she appeared on 60 Minutes in all her high-cheekboned, Virginia gentry poise, Kathleen Willey looked like a woman whose most egregious lie might have been a fib about her dress size. But whether or not the former White House volunteer was telling the truth about her encounter with Bill Clinton, it seems that she has not been above baroque acts of deception...
...when the battle's joined? "We've got to get some health reform passed," says a top HHS official. "We could be gone in '96 if we don't. We'll drop 'medically necessary' if we have to, but maybe the language that would permit abortions if women fib will survive. It may be immoral to say women should lie, but too many have struggled for too long despite Roe as the law -- and that's immoral...