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From private fibs to public whoppers, rampant lying is a spreading dry rot in the American body politic...
...first task Baker and his aides faced when they arrived at the White House was to impose order on a chaotic political operation. Decision making had ceased. Top-level meetings took hours and accomplished nothing. Second guessing and finger pointing were rampant. Advance men were refusing to journey to sites of future Bush events out of fear that they would be canceled en route. Bush had little confidence in his top advisers, and the strain was evident to anyone who watched him on television. Baker has told friends that before returning to the White House, he had discounted complaints about...
...history of modernism is suffused with cults of artistic ego and rampant "originality" -- especially Surrealism, the movement Magritte was linked to. But he made a virtue of anonymity, disappearing behind the work like one of the partly vanishing, ambiguous figures in his own paintings. Apart from a short stay in Paris (1927-30), Magritte spent his whole adult life in Brussels, issuing his mind-wrenching visual conundrums from a base of the most perfect bourgeois propriety, using a corner of his living room for a studio and never painting any naked woman but his wife Georgette, who, in return, never...
...first week post-Andrew was chaotic as government agencies tried to coordinate with each other. Price gouging was rampant--$5 for a small bag of ice, for example. The national guard moved in to enforce a strict curfew and protect residences and businesses from looting. Spray-painted messages on homes such as "you loot, we'll shoot" were common, as were insurance company names and telephone numbers...
...hysteria was rampant for about the first two weeks of school or so," Kling recalls...