Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election day, the projections would have been borne out, as they partially were in Iowa. It is somewhat perverse to blame the press, even in part, for Mondale's failure in the Granite State. It's like saying that predicting the truth turns the truth into a lie...
...last 44 years have controlled both houses of Congress and who have rel-giously had a policy of deficit spending and never raised their voices about il." Fumed House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "On the campaign trail, the President condemns deficits. Here in Washington, lie defends them...
...fabric resembling Matisse motifs, but she still hangs an overflow elsewhere in the apartment. In another Buatta supercloset. Author Hannah Pakula has installed a chaise longue, an exercise machine and several other comforts. The author spends many hours reading and writing in her clothes-lined retreat. This way may lie a new departure in fashion: clothes to wear in the closet. -By MichaelDemarest. Reported by Mark Seal/Dallas and Tara Weingarten/Los Angeles
Merely to satisfy his own low curiosity and ours, the author eases into a town where death has been done. If a trial is going on, so much the better; people can be made to answer at a trial, and the ring of lie clanking against truth tells something about them. A slick Florida lawyer has been shot to death and left to ruin the upholstery of his fancy car. A feud among Mexican Americans in Riverside, Calif., feeds on itself so long and so bloodily that one participant admits being in jail is a relief. Three acquaintances booze away...
Trillin writes with skill and economy. He plays fair and never invents quotes or deals in the shabbiness of composite characters. He never claims too much for his conundrums and does not speculate for half a sentence too long about where the truth may lie. A single reservation is in the matter of scale. In The New Yorker, these articles seemed exhaustive; in the book, some of them are disappointingly brief. The same illusion of time slowed and prose made denser is observable in even the best of the magazine's longer fact articles, which can seem interminable when...