Word: liar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bestsellers. Thus, what the campaign has really come down to is a back-alley fight featuring such pejorative words and phrases as "liar," "demagogue," "socialist," "irresponsible," "reckless," "soft on Communism," and "fascist." Scurrilous paperback books about both candidates have become bestsellers. Vicious television commercials have depicted Goldwater as a man willing to sprinkle a little girl's ice cream with cancer-causing strontium...
...this fashion, Author Thomas Berger introduces Jack Crabb, who surely must be one of the most delightfully absurd fictional fossils ever unearthed from the Olden Time Fronteer. Berger solemnly declares that Crabb was "either the most neglected hero in the history of this country or a liar of insane proportions." Crabb, in fact, is both, which is just what Berger intended him to be. As relived by Crabb in Berger's telling, the legends and the romanticized history of the West are comically disassembled, like Hamlets seen from backstage. Typical is Crabb's meeting with Wyatt Earp...
...that could be heard in Colombia's Congress was the jeers of the opposition. Pleadingly, the nation's President, Guillermo León Valencia, 55, raised his hands for quiet. "Liar!" howled the opposition. "Assassin!" As TV cameras flashed the scene to fascinated viewers, Valencia fought to be heard. "There are slaves," he shouted into the din, "who despite their freedom hold a nostalgia for chains...
JUBB, by Keith Waterhouse. Through the weird alchemy of talent and restraint, British Novelist Waterhouse (Billy Liar) turns the story of a lonely voyeur into a novel with both compassion and comedy...
...Lucas and Considine reports aroused predictable responses. The British denied all accusations of perfidy. Truman and Eisenhower refused to comment. A longtime MacArthur aide, Major General Courtney Whitney, called Lucas' piece mostly "fantasy" and "fictional" nonsense. Lucas replied by calling Whitney a "liar...