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...history of odd characters who become overnight celebrities: Buckwheat, Ed Grimley, Jon Lovitz's compulsive liar, the Samurai Butcher, to name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Man of 1,000 Faces | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...know which candidate to vote for, because they're all alike. So another label comes to be affixed to some candidates in order to eliminate them. Did he ever cheat? He must be a Cheater. Someone heard him tell a lie? By gosh, the man's a Liar. Better not vote...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Candidate Quick Fix | 2/12/1992 | See Source »

Roiling these backwaters are two powerful, charismatic figures, Raphael Hunter, an outright scoundrel, and Albion Pugh, who is more of a chronic liar and gifted fabulist. Both men are effortlessly successful with women: Ramsay loses his wife to Hunter and a beloved cousin to Pugh. He envies Pugh's "capacity to mythologise existence . . . his charm and his whatever it was he had instead of genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mortal Fools | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

...several public spats that did not inspire confidence in his leadership. At one point Sununu seemed to criticize the President for a remark about high interest rates on credit cards; at another point he accosted a Washington Post reporter at a bill-signing ceremony, shouting, "You're a liar! Everything you write is lies!" Skinner is certain to run a more collegial shop, but unless Bush can make up his mind about what course he should take, the personnel changes will mean little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Clearing the Decks | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

Then Duke hit another stumbling block. Having claimed to be born again, he was asked where he worshiped and named a church no one had seen him attend. A top campaign aide, who doubted Duke's Christianity and called him "a racist, coward, draft dodger and bald-faced liar," deserted him a few days before the election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louisiana The No-Win Election | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

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