Word: liar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Andrew Cunanan created his own worlds too. They just didn't work out. For years he had insinuated himself into the lives of well-off, older gay men. An adroit and tireless liar, he told friends in San Diego he was Andrew DeSilva, a man with a factory in Mexico, or wealthy parents in the Philippines, or a wife and daughter--the ones in the photo he would pass around that he got from who knows where. But by last April, when police say he started a cross-country killing spree that climaxed in the fatal shooting of Versace...
...life let Lieut. Kelly Flinn down [WASHINGTON DIARY, May 26]. She was used by the liar she fell for; a male fellow officer ratted on her to save his own skin. She was surrounded by officers, but where were the gentlemen in Flinn's life? As a retired military man, I am ashamed of my former profession and my gender. MICHAEL K. HEANEY First Lieutenant, U.S.A. (ret.) Bernardsville...
...partners they have had. At a routine level, men lie to get women in bed ("you're beautiful," "my wife doesn't understand me"), lie when they are there (witness the hilarity that greets Jim Carrey's "I've had better" to a postcoital inquiry in the movie Liar Liar), and lie afterward ("I'll call you in the morning...
When there's no happily ever after, revisionism can really set in. What was ill-advised can in retrospect look involuntary. If you meant not to, wished you hadn't, know you shouldn't have, you can rationalize saying you didn't and not think of yourself as a liar. Some forms of withholding information are sanctioned. Alcoholics Anonymous, which otherwise insists on brutal honesty, allows an exception for not telling your spouse about affairs. Annulment, when an applicant says he lacked due discretion to enter into marriage, is a form of sanctified lying about...
According to Kane's e-mail, Mitchell is a "two-faced liar" while Forsgard has "shut-the-hell-up dagger eyes...