Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond such traditional attractions as London, Paris and Rome lie the superbargains. Denmark is quite cheap; Spain and Portugal are very cheap. A palatially balconied room at the onetime royal hunting lodge in Portugal's magnificent Bucaco Forest costs $35 a couple a night. The pottery shops around the noble monastery of Batalha or the Moorish stronghold of Cintra sell beautiful 18th century-style china for prices as low as $7 a plate. Greece is beyond cheap, particularly if you concentrate on the best bargain it has to offer: find yourself an out-of-the-way island in the Aegean...
Eating has at times given him the dimensions of an outdoor sanitary facility. "People say George Foreman eats a dozen eggs and a pound of bacon for breakfast. That's a lie. I eat eleven eggs." He is trying to lose 45 lbs. to get down to an ideal 225. "It's sad. You work all your life to make it, and then...
...feared she was pregnant after having sex with her boyfriend (she was not). To make her tale believable, she said, she had torn her clothes and inflicted the cuts and bruises. When her description of her assailant led to Dotson's arrest, she said, she stuck to the lie...
Viet Nam takes on different lights and different perspectives when held at a slightly different angle. In a sense, Viet Nam was an unthinkably intricate and insoluble tragedy of lies--lies and exaggerations and distortions on all sides. It was as if the war involved some primal falsification, something like original sin, or else, less grandiosely, a deep incompatibility of cultures --and from that lie others flowed, fluently and poisonously and endlessly...
...field, the Americans were encouraged to lie about their "body counts" (measuring progress in the war by lives taken, not land taken). Viet Nam gave rise to an elaborate language of deceit. Officialese was done in the Latinate: incursion, attrition, pacification, termination with extreme prejudice. The linguistic underside of that was the flip, sinister slang that the American G.I.s contrived: dinky dau (crazy), numbah ten (the worst), Charlie (the Viet Cong), grease (kill). The antiwar movement built a massive vocabulary of rhetorical excess about "fascist Amerika." Officers lied in writing up citations for their men and themselves. The Viet...