Word: liar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ironically, Americans have ample evidence that Reagan is more arrogant than ignorant, more a devious liar than a genial fool. As Christopher Hitchens pointed out in a recent issue of The Nation, when Reagan told Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir that he himself had liberated Jews from the Nazi death camps he was not simply making a blunder. Reagan never left the country during the War, and he knows it; it's hard to confuse Hollywood with Auschwitz. By the same token, when Reagan claimed he had received a message "from Pope John Paul urging us to continue our efforts...
...created a stage persona more pathetic than Woody Allen, more whiny than The Pathological Liar and about as bizarre as Sid Vicious. He makes it clear from the start that he's a geek, a psycho, a loser, and that we should laugh...
...Soviet television. Chatting on Thursday with residents of the southern Russian city of Krasnodar, the Soviet leader called Daniloff a "spy caught in the act." Since Reagan had assured Gorbachev in a personal letter that Daniloff was only a journalist, Gorbachev was in effect calling the President a liar...
...blood feud with its opposite. He cherished his friends and he treacherously turned on them (on Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Scott Fitzgerald and many others). He adored women and he hated them. His literary program was to write the brutal truth, and yet he was sometimes a liar and a fraud. He was profoundly creative and profoundly destructive. He had a spontaneous gift of life. He enjoyed (that is the word) a lifelong relationship with death. He resolved all contradictions at last by joining his father and his father's pistol in the amniotic deep...
...proof that Waldheim was guilty of war crimes, the evidence indicates that he had to be aware of criminal atrocities and was flagrantly misleading in describing his wartime career. At a bar in the village of Spittal, a young workman blurts out, "I just don't want a liar for a President...