Word: lying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sets would be closed, he explained, but there would be cameramen, technicians. "You're going to lie there like a piece of meat while they adjust the lighting. We can't use a double; the skin colors would be wrong. And some camera guy is going to run a tape measure down from his lens to your ass?zip!?to get his focus right. Can you work with that...
...many years to better ourselves through education only to find there are no jobs for our skills? Let's stop concentrating on the underclass and start helping the educated; maybe then more jobs will open up for the poor. After all, where does the future of our country lie, with the educated, or with the poor, or with the poor educated...
...been nicknamed the EE 304 cadets after the electrical-engineering course whose take-home examination was the focus of most of the charges. If the academy had followed tradition, none of the expelled cadets could have returned, for they had violated the rigid honor code: "A cadet will not lie, cheat or steal or tolerate those who do." It was only after an agonizing inquiry into the moral fabric of the academy that the Army ruled that any of the 152 cadets who had been kicked out in the scandal could apply for readmission. The 98 who returned included five...
...Three Intermezzi, Op. 117; Three Intermezzi, Op. 119; Rhapsody, Op. 119 No. 4 (Pianist Van Cliburn, RCA). The Handel Variations are often thought of as a piece that only a pianist, or piano buff, could love. In one of his most appealing albums in years, Van Cliburn puts the lie to that. Leaping from one craggy Brahmsian peak to another as effortlessly as though playing Debussy's Clair de lune, Cliburn gives the work a warm romantic allure yet never loses hold of its classic-baroque underpinnings. What ingenuity and surprise Cliburn finds in this music! What stunning sound...
...famines were frequent. Now a more equitable social structure in the countryside has allowed peasants to increase productivity several times over. Better education for peasants has improved agricultural techniques; cooperative ventures have multiplied the number of irrigation networks; the elimination of large farms with owners who let their fields lie fallow to produce artificial shortages, has meant that natural disasters no longer mean starvation for millions. Now, the country feeds everyone who lives--which cannot be said of any Third World country trying to develop on a capitalist model...