Word: shamelessness
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...Lord Perjury is fiction of a sort, but British author Jeffrey Archer won't be doing any book signings for perhaps his most creative piece of work. The shameless peer began a four-year prison sentence in July for forging a diary 14 years ago and concocting a story as unbelievable as one of his novels. To counter a prostitute's accusation of a sexual encounter and win a libel suit against a British tabloid, Archer had persuaded a friend to lie for him and had created a host of false journal entries to nullify the working girl's claims...
...think Las Vegas is a quicksand of tasteless glitz and shameless spectacle. So does Dave Hickey, who figures that makes it the perfect place for art. Visual thrills are a local industry, mile-high neon and fake pyramids just part of the scenery. "Vegas aspires to visibility," he says. "Art is an extension and refinement of what Vegas is about...
This was my introduction to Harvard social life: forced, competitive objectification of others for material gain. But of course, I then realized, this is exactly what is needed to do networking right, a shameless drive toward using people as means...
...course, the marketers are eating this up: within two weeks of the attacks, General Motors exhorted television viewers to "Keep America Rolling" by taking advantage of its 0% financing offer. Shameless hucksterism? Well, yes. But businesspeople and policymakers in both the U.S. and Europe are hoping it works. Before the World Trade Center disaster, the oddly robust spending of Americans seemed to be all that was keeping the global economy out of recession. The fear now is that a collapse in U.S. consumer confidence will bring down America and everyone else...
...Elizabeth A. Phang ’02 are writing theses which are ostensibly more personal than those of the authors interviewed last week. The stories are set in a suburban town; the novel’s characters are like the author or people she knows. Do these similarities represent shameless and tiresome exploitations of the author’s experience, or are they simply a means to help the author create a new world that has never been seen before...