Word: liar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coined the phrase later attributed to the legendary Algoma prospector Old Sam Martin: "Any man who sez he's been et by a wolf is a liar...
...final gesture, the narrator seems to turn up the house lights to reveal that his tale is only an illusion. As he sees it, writers are "liars" who continually try to hide the truth because it can drive men mad. So the reader is advised: "Let us all lie together, or surely we shall all lie alone." Fortunately, Fuentes is a natural-born "liar." and frequently skillful and imaginative enough to rivet the attention. Even his windy sales pitches from the existential soapbox are not without charm and vitality. It is as if Fuentes were more interested in the pitch...
...predators"; there is no authenticated case of a wolf killing a human being in North America. A newspaper editor once offered a reward for a verifiable wolf atrocity story. After ten fruitless years he remarked: "Any man who says he's been eaten by a wolf is a liar...
Johnson has fared worse than most. Black Power Apostle Stokely Carmichael calls him a "hunky," a "buffoon," and a "liar." Stokely's successor as head of the ill-named Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, H. Rap Brown, suggested that the President and Lady Bird ought to be shot. In The Accidental President, liberal Journalist Robert Sherrill described the President as "treacherous, dishonest, manic-aggressive, petty, spoiled." The outrageous play MacBird! called...
...SHOW-OFF is George Kelly's comedy of 1924, but it is datelessly entertaining. Its hero (Clayton Corzatte) is a braying, backslapping braggart with the laugh of a hyena and the grandiloquent transparency of a born liar. The actress who commandeers the stage in this APA revival is Helen Hayes in her best role since Queen Victoria...