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Apparent sincerity may be Anderson's strongest suit--but then again, the nation took that same bait from another candidate in 1976 and swallowed it whole. Duplicitous is too nice a word for the incumbent; he has proved himself a baldfaced liar. Just ask those who worked for him four years ago after he promised to reduce military spending, after he called nuclear power an undesirable "last resort," after he assured women that the Equal Rights Amendment would be a top priority of his administration...
Antidraft groups, which had been predicting widespread noncompliance, were unconvinced by the Selective Service's figures. Said Barry Lynn, head of CARD (Committee Against Registration and the Draft): "I'm not going to call Rostker a liar. I am going to say I'm very, very skeptical." Lynn called for an independent audit of the count, perhaps by Congress's General Accounting Office. It was a challenge that Rostker gladly picked...
...month from the FBI for his services, plus perquisites like limousines and champagne. He said he had received a $100,000 advance from a publisher for a book about ABSCAM. Weinberg was asked if he had once said in an interview that he was "the world's biggest liar." "Yes," he readily admitted, but at the time he had been, well, lying...
...this challenge with Answered Prayers, that bedeviled, and still unfinished, gossip novel concocted from letters, journals, conversations and the confidences spilled during hundreds of lunch dates. Four chapters of the book were published by Esquire in 1975-76. The reaction was predictable. Capote was denounced as a malicious liar and betrayer of his jet-set friends...
...quite seriously. But so beautiful, so graceful, so changeful in a hundred moods, so brilliant that it is enough to turn anyone's head," she wrote, adding perceptively that "part of her mysteriousness comes from her being, as it were, sexless." There were other flaws. Gladys was a liar, cruel, selfish, perverse, vulgar...