Word: liar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Starstruck breaks the pattern. Armstrong has billed her latest work as "A totally different kind of Australian film," and she's no liar. She offers a precocious musical parody of quite a few of the icons of modern culture, including politicians, movie musicals, sexism in the music industry, the pretenses of bourgeous "punks," and even, egad, the current obsession with making movies about new wave musicians...
...than he did. Indeed, it is also beyond reason able doubt that he merely forgot or tossed aside all that profession al experience and knowledge when he neglected to act. Thus, "You should have known," in certain circumstances, becomes a way of elegantly telling someone he's a liar, a liar more to himself than to others, possibly, but a liar nonetheless...
Even McManus concedes that at "one time" anti-Semitism pervaded the John Birch Society. But he adds that anyone who accuses the JBS today as being anti-Semitic is a downright liar. The ADL, wouldn't say that any longer...
...spirits. To maintain an unshakable view Thus the face of contrary evidence is to maintain a fiction. Thus a consistency need not be specifically "foolish," as Emerson declared, to be diminishing. Any consistency opposed to experience is bound to be foolish in the long run, and to make a liar of its practitioner, however noble his intentions...
...predicated that Penn would be good this year. I know the Quakers would be in the running for the Ivy title. I laughed in Playboy's face when that magazine picked the Philadelphians as the third worst college football team in the country. I am such a liar...