Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Department are adept liars, come to one of my pretrial hearings, to the trial itself, or ask Richard Jewell." It ends on a note straight out of The X-Files: "People need to question and analyze what they hear, and ponder the motivations of those spreading the propaganda. The truth lies deeper...
...truth is that 1997 is not so far from 1967 or 1937. Where the taboo topic of race is concerned, in fact, 1997 is not so very far from 1619 when African slaves were first brought to America. We have so terribly far to go. And we will never get there--to that land of equality, freedom, liberty and justice for all--if we do not recognize exactly where...
...horror stories," he says, "and I can only presume some may be true. But he was never like that with me." Noyce took the actor's suggestions about Simon's elaborate disguises (they give the film a lift and an edge) and pumping up the romance. "The truth is that we made a different film from the one Paramount financed," Kilmer says, "and they went along with it." They also paid for a new ending, shot in January, after preview groups nixed a death scene for Shue's character...
...impact point of our age's need to believe and its need to know, and generating best sellers both for its fervent proponents and (lately) its detractors, the historical Jesus movement (Flash! Virgin birth a cover-up! Resurrection a fraud!) hardly wants for print. Yet in his Gospel Truth (Riverhead Books; 305 pages; $24.95), Russell Shorto provides a useful addition: an up-to-date survey and smart lay analysis of the theories that together constitute one of the stickiest challenges to traditional Christianity...
Shorto, a journalist, skillfully lays out the anomalies, allusions and stylistic shifts that have caused a wide spectrum of scholars to see the Gospels less as factual truth than as a product of faith and early Christian politics. He also examines the recent archaeological finds that revved the debate. Detouring occasionally (describing, for instance, a DNA study of the goats whose parched skins were used for the Dead Sea Scrolls), he picks and chooses among the available theories to arrive at a kind of aggregate anti-Gospel...