Word: untruthfully
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...Perhaps these inconstancies are part of the book's Art - an attempt to discombobulate the audience with extreme contradictions just as the characters live in a state of perpetual untruth and obfuscation. But I doubt Rall thought about it that much. Or if he did, he failed, because "2024," unlike its inspiration, never gives you the feeling of being in the grips of a narrative master and certainly never makes you think more than a second about your own life...
That the camera never lies has long been proved to be an untruth. Photographers know how to make the machine fib, setting up shots that feign spontaneity, cropping out context. And, anyway, most people stop being themselves and start acting if they discover that the third eye is on them. Once "captured," an image can be bent again. I know a newspaper snapper whose moody scene of a desert under a full moon was challenged by an astute reader: my friend had moved the moon to enhance his shot ... and turned it upside down. This decades ago in a darkroom...
...massive database of every utterance in Gore's 26 years in public service - and then pounce on any and every discrepancy like a bulldog lawyer seeking to discredit a witness. It wouldn't matter how tiny the variance. Any deviation could be characterized as an embellishment, an exaggeration, an untruth, a dishonesty. And then finally the word that would superglue Gore to Clinton...
...Gore's case, the areas of vulnerability (outside the obvious conservative distaste for his big government mentality, his stand on abortion and so on) will be his personal character - there will be elaborate efforts to answer the question, What exactly is wrong with Al Gore? - and the truth or untruth (or half-truth) of things he has said in the past...
...Notes from Our Century, and Gordimer makes a case study of historical progress out of her native South Africa, taking us from the world of apartheid through redemption to the post-apartheid era. But her words begin to sound false: not the falseness of lies, but of emotional untruth...