Word: untruths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best acting is done by Hambly, who tries to liven up her flat character. Madden is appropriately unapproachable and successfully conveys a ring of untruth in her voice. Unfortunately, the performances are weakened by the ludicrous subject matter. The minor characters have even less dimension. Since even the relationship between Bo and Ata isn't well-developed, the smaller parts are still less memorable...
...final untruth appeared in the last paragraph of the article. It indicated that there are no museum attendants interested in stepping forward to represent the attendants to the Local 254 labor union to which they belong...
...besides its basic untruth, the most dangerous aspect of this image of success is that Asian-Americans themselves have begun to believe...
Writing is lying, she tells the potential students. "If you don't know the text of something, you can't make an untruth about...
Clampitt is a great one for setting out on journeys. Her point of departure is usually Manhattan, for which she has scarcely a good word. "A glittering shambles/ of enthrallments and futilities," goes one complaint; "a warren of untruth, a propped/ vacuity." Some of her lighter excursions are to Maine, the inspiration of some lovely, limpid nature writing -- about picking blueberries "the color/ of distances, of drowning," or a day of "bone-white splendor,/ a slow surf filleting the blue...