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...heart; when you've seen one mutilation, you've seen them all. Still, as Arthur Koestler wrote of the war in Spain: "Anyone who has lived through the hell of Madrid with his eyes, his heart, his stomach, and then pretends to be objective, is a liar...
...reduced to ridiculous slander, lies about "physical attacks on leftist rallies." The Spartacists are so "ultra-left," he says, that they must be under the control of the right. This sort of stuff is cheap and sensational. Anderson is either incredibly paranoid or just a plain liar. Dean Wareham...
...West German court last week ordered the destruction of the printing plates and all available copies of The Auschwitz Myth. The court's reaction is understandable. Staeglich is, after all, a liar whose work could make the outlawed Nazi party's existence more palatable, or at least stir up the belligerence of its present members. Few West Germans who remember the horrors of Nazi rule would welcome either prospect. One can also see the rationale behind the University of Goettingen's recent decision to revoke the doctoral degree Staeglich earned in 1951 for his law studies. The president...
...unsuccessful Congressional campaign against Heckler in 1980. Heckler had never dreamed those funding votes would come back to besmirch her pro-life image. "McCarthy forced Heckler in a role," Pierce says, "where people would look at her and say she's at best a wimp and at worst a liar" Pierce calls McCarthy "the great untold story of the Margaret Heckler Barney Frank race." By forcing Heckler to defend both sides of the fence she was straddling on the abortion issue, McCarthy made Heckler look like a hypocrite and watched her formerly automatic constituencies fade away. "The point that people...
...Starstruck breaks the pattern. Armstrong has billed her latest work as "A totally different kind of Australian film," and she's no liar. She offers a precocious musical parody of quite a few of the icons of modern culture, including politicians, movie musicals, sexism in the music industry, the pretenses of bourgeous "punks," and even, egad, the current obsession with making movies about new wave musicians...