Word: half-truth
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...political life he was to suffer. Though my disappointment in Bill Clinton had settled in long before his famous comment that it all depends on what you mean by "is," the linguistic side-step was an added blow. Its technical precision was so obviously a device to hide the half-truth behind it that Clinton insulted our intelligence while protecting his own interests. His intent was, as Texas Gov. George W. Bush might say, to "obsfucate...
Sometimes we satisfy ourselves with the half-truth that boys just need to eat more; sometimes we make the absurd assumption that girls just like salad more; mostly we just don't think about it, because we've been watching it happen like this for years. And I could add disclaimers about how boys have eating concerns too, which is certainly and sadly true, or about how I don't speak for all girls or about how chicken fingers every night is not the healthiest of diets either. But with all that said, the situation still stands, and I almost...
...choice was preordained. After all, the lie in all its variations--the half-truth, the legalism, the critical omission, the elastic wordplay--is what he knows. Acrobatics--"I didn't inhale," the Flowers denial, the draft--are what brung him to the dance...
...have never drawn from a stuffed specimen," Audubon claimed in 1828. "Nature must be seen first alive." Like nearly everything else he said about himself, this statement was, at best, a half-truth. Audubon killed thousands of birds; before photography and high-resolution binoculars, that was the only possible way to render accurate images of them. But before Audubon shot them, he watched his subjects intensively, noting how they moved and behaved, the plants or habitats they preferred. When he had his bird in hand, he used wires to arrange the specimen in a characteristic pose...
Yesterday the Crimson told a half-truth...