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...suit. He did admit that he had a police record for theft and was in a drug- rehabilitation program, but he said nobody had harassed or threatened Goetz at all. He had just politely asked, "Mister, can I have $5?" Defense Lawyer Barry Slotnick called Canty a "liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Guilty | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

Alnilam also contains impelling descriptions of aerial combat, though we learn later the stories are probably lies. Significantly, the accusation cannot lessen the imaginativeness of the narration. It is one of Dickey's better stunts: to portray the artist as an inspired liar who can convince us that boats float on grass and a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Into The Wild, Mystical Yonder ALNILAM | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

...more than two days at a time except sometimes during Reading Period. (Occasionally I hear from a Black student the following: "I don't think about being Black" or "Being Black is not an issue in my life." These statements, which immediately brand the speaker as either a liar or victim of autism, can be isolated as a corollary to the white student's "I don't think of you as Black"--a phrase whose originator must have thought conferred the equivalent of knighthood...

Author: By Camille M. Caesar, | Title: Reflecting on The Diversity Principle | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

...Tammy Faye, Bakker informed Nightline Host Ted Koppel and his television audience -- the largest in the show's seven-year history -- that his lethal enemy was the Rev. Jerry Falwell, the televangelist to whom he had entrusted his scandal-stained PTL* ministry last March. Bakker portrayed Falwell as a liar and thief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Of God and Greed | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

After Vrdolyak accused Hynes of using his office as county tax assessor to gain more business for his law firm, Hynes was quoted in the Chicago Sun Times suggesting that Vrdolyak had met with a Mafia boss. Vrdolyak sued for libel and accused Hynes of being a "liar and a sleaze." Even Washington, who leads Hynes by 35% and Vrdolyak by 39%, could not resist stooping for a shot at his longtime enemy Vrdolyak. Said the mayor: "He's slime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago: Dishonorable Opponents , | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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