Word: liar
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...calling someone a liar nothing more than a statement of opinion? And if so, is that opinion protected by the Constitution -- even if rooted in falsehood? These questions are central to a pending Supreme Court decision that may establish the extent to which journalists and others are accountable for airing their most passionate beliefs...
...need for a safety net causes people to make formulas and sequels. I have this incredible sensation that the industry is at the top of a deep rapids and that there's going to be a fatality rate. Anyone who denies that is a fool or a liar...
...example out of me for everybody else to shut up. These other owners would rather give away their savings and loans than lose their respectability, end up like I am, hounded, harassed, broke. I'm being slammed and ridiculed and called a thief and a bum and a liar. They even tied me into Noriega for forming a Panamanian company to do business in England. Nothing wrong with any part of it. The committee flat said I was doing drugs. Lincoln made a loan to Covenant House, and I waived one of the interest payments on the building which housed...
...Stark (Steel Magnolias, Annie) last week acquired film rights to Barbarians at the Gate, a best-selling account of the $25 billion takeover of RJR Nabisco, the largest buyout ever. Warner Bros. has paid a sum estimated to be in the high six figures for the privilege of filming Liar's Poker, an I-lived-with- savages expose of the Wall Street firm Salomon Brothers. And the cameras are ready to roll on the movie version of Tom Wolfe's blockbuster novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, which stars Tom Hanks in the role of bond trader Sherman McCoy...
Ritter explained all this by saying that like many former drug runners, Kite needed a fake identity to be protected from the Mob. Ritter brought Kite's father to New York, where he declared that his son was a chronic liar. Still, Ritter warned, copycats might surface in the wake of Kite's allegations...