Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like Lau, opposed to both the war and to the Communists, the best hope seems to lie in bringing about a rapprochement between Saigon and the Communists in the interest of Vietnamese nationalism. At his trial, Lau retracted his earlier confession that he had known his contact to be a Viet Cong agent, then added: "I did not serve the Communists. My only work was journalism. Everyone knows that I am a nationalist." Says a Saigon police official: "Lau thought he saw a ceasefire and a coalition government coming. He was trying to swim between two currents. He thought...
...spoiled too," they set out to engorge the world, sponging lavish meals off of older men, then tricking their benefactors onto departing trains. Much of the film documents the Marys' coming and going between expensive restaurants and expensive ladies rooms. But they become bored with being successful parasites; they lie, they steal, seeking new excitement, "a worse kind of life." Finally they stumble upon an unattended banquet, which they utterly destroy. Here the film stops; they are seen drowning, calling for help against filmic extinction. The filmmaker, arbiter of their future, types out a message on the screen: "Even...
...they do not recognize their failure to return the system to its continuous state; that's the why they see the world itself--in pieces. Therefore they can have no world view, no morality, no fixed or whole perceptual reference (prerequisite to both philosophy and morality). They steal, they lie, they consume, because they can perceive no reason not to. No morality, "no objection...
...some the Gropius myth will remain in his buildings; for others, it can be seen in his writing; and, for some, it will lie in the apocryphia that surrounds any magnetic figure...
...PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY is a black panther of a play, stalking the stage as if it were an urban jungle. Playwright Charles Gordone is too honest to lie about a bright brotherly tomorrow, but he tells the racial truth about today...