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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cavanagh claims that the photograph proves that Yun was not an innocent bystander, as she described herself, at the time of the protest. "Yun is now on record as a public, bald-faced liar," Cavanagh stated in the leaflet...

Author: By Jonathan Shayne, | Title: SoHo Tutor Claims Assault After Protest | 12/3/1981 | See Source »

...does government interfere: Houston has no zoning laws. Dallas, however, is hemmed in by suburbs that resist annexation, and the city's urban planners have carefully guided expansion. Admits Dallas Developer Scovell: "Sure, we were jealous of Houston's growth. Anyone who tells you different is a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Little Rivalry in Texas | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

WRITERS, D.H. Lawrence once pointed out, should be scrupulously ignored when they stop making their art and start talking about it. "The artist is a damned liar," he wrote adding, "Never trust the artist. Trust the tale." Lawrence, of course, was right. When a Dick Cavett coaxes a writer in front of the camera for a half-hour of high gossip, the writer often turns into a sly little prevaricator. Or when a Herbert Mitgang lets an author expatriate about his oeuvre in balanced prose you know no one speaks in... Writers should not be invited to "ideal" dinner parties...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Laughing Last but not Loudest | 11/18/1981 | See Source »

...would damage morale on the force. The autocratic Breier, likened by his detractors to J. Edgar Hoover was bold enough to wade into an angry downtown demonstration last August by citizens protesting Lacy's death. Spotting the chief, the crowd chanted: "Fire Breier He's a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Accidents or Police Brutality? | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

Chapman is speaking at campuses in the U.S. and Canada this month about producing movies and about his recent book "A Liar's Autobiography," which he said "is sometimes a little more truthful than I would like to admit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grahame Chapman | 10/21/1981 | See Source »

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