Word: lies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hidden away in small apartments doubling as campaign office, littered with mass-produced campaign postcards and brightly colored flyers, lie the few, the unknown-Massachusetts' dark horse candidates...
...launched in key districts Tuesday night -- with the RNC?s stamp of approval ?- means an end to the tacit agreement between the parties that the Lewinsky affair would not play a large role in the fall campaign. One commercial features two women discussing whether it?s "OK to lie"; another asks if voters should "reward not telling the truth"; a third uses the video, but not the audio, of the President denying having had sexual relations with "that woman." Although none use "Bill Clinton" in the same sentence as "lying," the implication is about as subtle as a sledgehammer...
...months ago mentioned the remarkable British novelist Patrick O'Brian. This, his beguiled readers could argue, demeans not O'Brian but the lists. To O'Brian loyalists--readers and re-readers, hangers-about on the O'Brian website, buyers of O'Brian calendars, dictionaries, three-cornered hats (a lie) and period foul-weather gear (another)--what might be open to dispute is whether to reserve, say, one slot high on a new "greatest" roster, or 18 or 20 places very close...
...both svelte and affordable. Hewlett-Packard's Jornada, Sharp's Mobilon Pro and Vadem's Clio feature built-in modems, word-processing and spreadsheet programs, and offer up to 12 hours of battery life. The screens on the Mobilon Pro and Clio rotate on a hinge and can lie flat, tablet-style. But none have a floppy drive, making file transfers a bit awkward...
With its bases in the Marxist philosophy repudiated by the U.S. victory in the Cold War, such a theory--that in any society there are a few people on top whose interests and benefit lie in their ability to fool the many on the bottom into supporting them--might well be spurned by the State Department...