Word: liar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be something of a liar if I claimed that the vision of a 27-year-old blonde who stands 5 ft. 8 in. and measures 38 in. around the bust doesn't pique my interest a bit. But I'll be damned if 1 know how Susan Snyder's measurable characteristics [Feb. 5], coupled with a blurb on her husband's occupation and plans for next year's Christmas cards, answer in any way the question, "Who was the blonde dancing with Richard Nixon...
...FAMILIAR and correct ingredients marked the counter-inaugural antiwar march last month. Banners and buttons, leaflets and posters, slogans and speakers--all reiterated themes initiated almost a decade ago. "Hey, Hey, LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today" had metamorphosed into "Nixon, You Liar, Sign The Cease-fire," but the tone of voice was identical...
...which Matthew appears as an American adventurer soldiering in Spain in 1836, and as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade 100 years later. Repeatedly the author writes a scene that the reader is expected to follow in good faith, only to have Matthew, a chronic and helpless liar, admit that nothing of the sort ever happened. Then the incident is retold in terms of richer and yet more baroque untruth...
...five Vietnamese by South Vietnamese police under the control of a U.S. lieutenant. He claims to have reported this incident to Colonel J. Ross Franklin, deputy commander of his brigade, twice from the field and again in person later the same day. Franklin, he says, then called him a liar. Then 60 Minutes produced Franklin's canceled check of Feb. 14 to the Ilikai Hotel in Honolulu; the check and the hotel register show that Franklin could not have been in Viet Nam until the following day. Herbert stuck by his story: "I know what I saw. I know...
...Juan is a classic example, and the story, as Moliere tells it, is not substantially different from Mozart's Don Giovanni, though distinctly less glorious as a work of art. Don Juan is a great seducer, charmer, liar and baneful curse to his father (Bill Moor), but he is something of more disturbing grandeur than that. He is a rebel on the scale of Lucifer. He defies God by challenging the order of things, by being as great an amoralist as one presumes God to be a moralist. He scoffs at fidelity, truth and honor as the manacles...