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...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...
Other topics range from history--Anne Sexton: A Biography, by Diane W. Middlebrook--to fiction. The exhibit features, among other novels, the best-selling The Liar's Club, by the Institute's director, Florence Ladd, who will step down at the end of this year...