| 单词 | tall tale |
| 例句 | Perhaps they’d grown so used to hearing the tall tales of their own adventures that they truly believed they would survive when all others had failed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t care, for I loved to hear the tall tales. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Around them, the Bochinche swarmed with rumors, tall tales, and nightmares about the Manhattan riots. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She had a feeling that her father would have liked Nathan—taking him fishing and telling him tall tales. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I will share how she put love and life in her food, her home, her tall tales. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We would then sit around, eating the ears of corn and telling tall tales. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a stout man, thanks to Eliza’s cooking, and the heart of all gossip and tall tales in the coffeehouse. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You need a cuento,” she says, referring to one of her tall tales. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Half of those stories are just tall tales, and they get taller with every year that passes,” said Enoch. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Just a tall tale from long ago that didn’t have anything to do with me? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z If you think I’m telling tall tales, get chummy with some white cop who works in a Black Belt district and ask him for the lowdown. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “This Academy would not be built on iron if it were only a tall tale. Do you realize how much effort—how much magic it took to raise this place?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z All that said, Velazquez draws a great octopus, the intense primary color palette is wonderfully energized for a group read-aloud, and the story provides an invitation for families to create tall tales together. What’s So Funny, Kid? 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z This is a nice change from the norm, and it’s emblematic of Eisler’s humane and grounded approach to writing a tall tale. Six New Thrillers for Fall 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z The new unscripted series "Search For the Lost Giants" investigates tall tales about an ancient civilization. TV This Week Nov. 2 - 8: The Game, 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z I wouldn’t spoil the details of his tall tale if I could; it runs on a free-associative logic that description doesn’t do justice, yet it makes perfect emotional sense. ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Gives Us the Jerks We Deserve 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Because there’s no easy way to measure or quantify authenticity, it’s hard for consumers of high-end handcrafted goods to be sure that they’re paying for more than tall tales. Does ‘artisanal’ equal ‘special’? Why we’re so ready to believe that it does. 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z Spread throughout Ariely's discourse are a variety of involving, true-life examples of folks whose untruths — white lies, tall tales, "fudges" and whoppers — ranged from simply irritating family members to landing said liars in prison. 'Truth About Lies' tells it like it is. Really 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z One pictures a musician and songwriter not brooding over a failed relationship, but having a ball making an album full of tall tales and uninhibited music. Jack White front and center on 'Blunderbuss' ✭✭✭ 1/2 2012-04-23T14:17:00Z In a story he told over the years, he learned how to spin facts — or nonfacts — from his jeweler father, Samuel Weintraub, who promoted his business with tall tales. Jerry Weintraub, a Force in Film and Music, Dies at 77 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z In the beginning, Pat’s penchant for tall tales was a large part of his charm, and hyperbole was the basis of his ribald humor. Perspective | Pat Conroy said he was ‘the most falsely open man’ I’d ever met. He was right. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z According to the author’s note, the story is based on the actual experience of Oh’s mother, an adventure so seemingly unbelievable she dismissed it as a tall tale for most of her life. Ellen Oh’s New Middle Grade Novel Is Not a Fantasy 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z The real star is the wily veteran groundskeeper O’Gill, who spins tall tales at the local inn about his encounters with leprechauns. James Bond and the Leprechauns: the weird world of Disney+ 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z You don’t so much read these absurdist tall tales as let them wash over you. Michael Dirda selects three magical books 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Ross uses his own considerable storytelling skills to lend Donato’s tall tales all the nerve-racking immediacy of ghost stories told around a campfire late at night. Books of The Times: Tall Tales From Gifted Storytellers 2011-06-20T22:00:07Z And many of her characters are, by their nature, annoying, like Penelope, a hair-twirling nudge who one-ups everyone with a trailing voice and a steady patter of increasingly surreal tall tales. Can Kristen Wiig Turn On the Charm? 2011-05-01T08:30:02Z “The Telling Room” has a subtitle so hyperbolic that it’s a tall tale in its own right. Books of The Times: Michael Paterniti’s ‘Telling Room,’ Set in Rural Spain 2013-07-22T20:29:40Z As the best raconteurs do, Mr. Cutrone treated facts as flexible elements, although surprisingly often the tall tales he related turned out to have been true. Ronnie Cutrone, a Man of Another, Cooler City 2013-08-02T22:08:34Z Over the next several pages, the men pass a bottle back and forth as they talk and shout and laugh about Ras and the riot, conjuring tall tales out of tragic circumstances. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Harris particularly shines when telling a tall tale of how the Earth began to spin on its axis and Ackermann is just as impeccable performing a bottomless-suitcase routine. Art band at On the Boards is a little cryptic, but still 'Awesome' 2010-04-23T20:21:00Z “For me, the film provided a lot more factual information about my father -- not just tall tales that were misconstrued, misremembered, rehashed, retold 10 different ways,” she said. Frances Bean Cobain: I don't like Nirvana, but I'm a lot like Kurt 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z It was a night of gritty voices, twangy guitars and songs steeped in American traditions and tall tales: a kind of powwow for the rootsy, handmade styles now categorized together as Americana. Music Review: ‘Love for Levon,’ Tribute to Helm at Izod Center 2012-10-05T04:30:05Z Unlike Williams, she suffered little long-term damage from the tall tale, which she laughed off in an appearance on "The Tonight Show." Americans' ability to forgive, forget fibs depends on who tells them 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Obama’s campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt immediately skewered Perry’s economic record in Texas stating that it is “no miracle – it’s a tall tale.” Texas Gov. Rick Perry joins 2012 GOP race 2011-08-13T17:52:00Z Some 100 pictures shed new light on Gauguin’s career by viewing him as a teller of tall tales, creator of archetypal females and seeker of an earthly paradise. Promising Exhibitions From Coast to Coast 2011-03-17T04:45:08Z But he decides to come, and he does his best to keep telling the tall tales his young relatives have come to expect, though it isn’t quite the same for anyone. Elegy With a Side of Applesauce 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z A Mississippi native, Mr. Hannah is heir to the bitter humor of Mark Twain, the Roman Catholic gothic of Flannery O’Connor and the South’s outsize tradition of tall tales. Books of The Times: Southern Writer With a Soft Spot for Wild Men Metes Out High-Octane Bonbons 2010-12-28T20:32:04Z Twain also includes fictional stories within the book – tall tales like Cecil Rhodes finding a newspaper in the belly of a shark. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z Facial contortions, sound effects, tall tales — all could be used in a matter of seconds to get a laugh. Groundbreaking Improv Comic Jonathan Winters Dies 2013-04-12T12:02:30Z They are creative storytellers and great performers who make themselves the hero or the victim of their tall tales, rarely nervous or hesitant while telling them. What made George Santos lie so much? Experts weigh in on his deception. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z In his previous sally, he cited the story of Maria’s Shoe, a tall tale that has been circulating in the New Age community for decades, always growing in the telling. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z Lucian's story was meant as a riff on travelers' tall tales, but the British Library said some considered it one of the world's first works of science fiction. Exhibit finds sci-fi themes in unexpected places 2011-05-19T16:46:04Z In Atkinson's model, we can have all of the above, but where does that leave us, with multiple tall tales clamouring for our attention? Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – review 2013-03-06T08:01:01Z Funny, with the clever hustler’s knack for an energetically spun tall tale, she has an upbeat tone that hardly falters, even when she recounts the most harrowing episodes of her life. Memoirs of Addiction and Ambition by Cat Marnell and Julia Phillips 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Whether writing for children or adults, he harnessed elegantly rhymed light verse to a gift for tall tales and fables and a fondness for twist endings and ever-expanding lists. Music Review: Celebrating a Twisted, Elegant Versifier 2011-08-07T21:46:32Z At its worst, “Joy” veers toward Russell’s default position, the tall tale, in which the story’s peculiarities and the characters’ idiosyncrasies are their own justification. David O. Russell’s Self-Reflexive “Joy” 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z Often, he borders on comic, a caricature obsessed with easy sex, limitless drugs and tall tales. Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z Charlotte Dawson's arrival in the world, in October 1992, was as unlikely as one of her late father's notoriously tall tales. Looking after Les Dawson's legacy 2012-09-28T23:04:02Z What she once thought were tall tales of sea captains — “dancing snakes, Jugglers swallowing swords” — she confirms with her own eyes. 2010-01-30T05:29:00Z As a spinner of tall tales, he recognizes the basic value of paying off a premise. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 9: ‘You Think the World Is Something’ 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z “The entire resort community comes together with food, beverages and tall tales to celebrate a day on the mountain.” After skiing, enjoy this hearty nosh with friends around a toasty fire 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Palance was 74 at the time, adding a dash of ageism to the tall tale. ‘My Cousin Vinny’ at 30: An Unlikely Oscar Winner 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z You won’t be blown away by the decor, but the bar is full of history and tall tales. Top 10 dive bars in New York City: readers’ tips 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z The songs from “Blood on the Tracks” are artfully multifaceted: romances, travelogues, tall tales, parables and possibly memories, all at once. On ‘More Blood, More Tracks,’ Familiar Bob Dylan Songs Cut Closer to the Bone 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z At this point, a surprise gatefold opens to reveal that Ramsey is telling a tall tale. What’s So Funny, Kid? 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z At 79, Dylan is entitled to the long view, and his new songs riffle through history, biography, theology, tall tales, myths and threats. Bob Dylan Still Bristles on ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Jon's story is the stuff of tall tales, but it’s all true. "Game of Thrones" recap: "The Last of the Starks" wasn't the best 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z But legend holds that on his deathbed in 1323, urged to acknowledge his volume as tall tales, he instead declared: "I haven't told half of what I saw." 'Marco Polo' brings the court of Kublai Khan to Netflix 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z “I was one of those kids who constantly told tall tales,” Baldacci said in an interview earlier this year. How James Comey Found Mistakes in His Manuscript 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z First, there is the matter of the deposition — but even more than that, King is after something of a tall tale. Stephen King's 'Drunken Fireworks' -- available only on audio 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z In Old Jack's Boat, which mixes live action and animation, Cribbins plays an old fisherman who spins tall tales from his boat, The Rainbow. Cribbins to star in CBeebies show 2013-01-15T13:03:09Z A broad range of local characters breeze through here after the lifts close, and it’s a sociable place to exchange tall tales of the day on the mountain. What to Do in Lake Tahoe 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Traditional shadow theater was historically a staple of Damascus cafe life, as story tellers used dyed animal-skin puppets to entertain their audience with tall tales, satire, songs and verse. Syria's last shadow puppeteer hopes to save his art 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Consistently pulling in the type of viewing figures that even The X Factor would be proud of, Ronnies Barker and Corbett hold a special place for their tall tales, superb sketches and mesmerising musical interludes. Six to Watch: Comedy double acts 2010-11-23T12:33:00Z Big Fish Kentwood Players present this musical based on the book and film about a young man trying to make sense of his father’s tall tales. L.A. theater openings, March 12-19: 'The Cruise' and more 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The comedian wins the audience by making people feel good, or better, by being honest even when they tell tall tales. Politics & performance: Why Zelenskyy succeeds where others fail 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Late at night, an old man regales a writer with a tall tale. The true-life tale that inspired ‘Moby-Dick,’ and a new movie by Ron Howard 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z But he swears his shrimp saga is no tall tale. The Curious Case of the Cinnamon Toast Crunch Box 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Facial contortions, sound effects, tall tales - all could be used in a matter of seconds to get a laugh. Groundbreaking improv comic Jonathan Winters dies 2013-04-12T17:08:10Z They were tall tales, surreal travelogues, love songs, existential riddles and exercises in wordplay — unmistakably Dylan. Albums by Nick Jonas, Bobby Shmurda and New Basement Tapes 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z The lyrics he wrote could be cryptic or narrative, character studies or tall tales or riddles, and they were informed by history, myth and paradox. Robbie Robertson’s 16 Essential Songs 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z He was happy to describe his own output as “tall tales, fibs, lies, whoppers” — a penchant that explains his attraction to the vainglorious, less than truthful hero of “Falstaff.” Robert Nye, Novelist Who Imagined Falstaff’s Memoirs, Dies at 77 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Both told tall tales about their long-ago reporting exploits, setting off weeks of negative publicity. Is the Stephanopoulos controversy like Bill O’Reilly’s or Brian Williams’s? 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z In fact, Ms. Ojih Odutola functions as much as a storyteller as a visual artist, spinning a fantastic tall tale around the images. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z For people who don't recognize Ballard as the most public face of a ridiculous tall tale accusing Wayfair of shipping stolen children in cabinets, the film's content may be extremely traumatizing. It's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," but for QAnon: Film spreading child trafficking hysteria is making bank 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z While that show generated controversy because Mr. Daisey exaggerated and fabricated some descriptions about the laborers, his new work, “All the Faces of the Moon,” involves tall tales of a benign sort. ‘All the Faces of the Moon’ Is Monologues on New York 2013-08-15T02:00:01Z By the end, it should be obvious that this is more of a tall tale than a biography, and that's fine. “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” is stranger than nonfiction 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z At the club, they will re-create some of the camaraderie that led to "Kin" with a presentation including poetry, tall tales and songs. Songwriter Rodney Crowell and poet Mary Karr play Triple Door 2012-06-14T20:49:03Z Set mostly on the American frontier of the 1850s and in post-Civil War Tennessee, this tall tale by the Irish novelist is alternately brutal and folksy. A young Irishman falls into the horrors of the American Civil War 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Her milieu is the often overlooked southern New Mexico and West Texas world of frontera families, and the tall tales that flourish there. Read Your Way Through the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Other journalists jumped in, finding multiple instances in which O’Reilly, like Williams, told tall tales about his work. Why don’t more journalists face the music like NBC’s Brian Williams? 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The short story is that it’s a tall tale spread by Postum, a caffeine-free morning beverage invented in the late 1800s. Take it with a pinch of salt – the food marketing myths we’ve swallowed whole 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z And the gathering commemorates the end-of-the-cattle-drive festivities that defined the Old West, with camaraderie and all that the term encompasses: tall tales, poetry and songs, dancing, gambling, thick steaks and strong drinks. At the Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Tall Tales, Resonant Rhymes 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Did you have trouble separating tall tales from fact? An Unusual Gangster: Doug J. Swanson Talks About Benny Binion 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Leskov’s tall tale insists on the inexplicable but entertaining randomness of life. ‘The Enchanted Wanderer,’ by the Mariinsky Theater, at BAM 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z This tall tale usually claims black cats will be sacrificed in various witchcraft ceremonies. Halloween myths and urban legends that just won't die 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Although Salovey didn’t mention anyone by name, he surely had in mind some of the tall tales about brave students and professors being silenced and martyred on altars of free speech by politically correct hordes. How’d we get here? The unholy crusade against political correctness was all the cover Trump needed 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Nottage’s “The Grey Rooster” is a terrific story with bite, a tall tale about a slave and a gamecock winning their freedom in unexpected, gruesome, comic style. Army of playwrights and D.C. celebs amass for Arena’s ‘Our War’ SAT Mountain Loop history and tall tales, 8 p.m. Community calendar 2011-08-11T00:56:04Z “She might’ve been a teller of tall tales, but Tammy was an honest person,” he says. Books of The Times: Stand by Your Singer and Her Art 2010-03-03T22:54:00Z These tall tales of fantastical creatures are illustrated -- by the pictures seen in daylight and a second set of scary images that glow in the dark. 13 scary new books to make Halloween spookier 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z But the hardest work — making a musical out of a fantastical story of an old man unspooling one tall tale after another — was left to the producers and their team. Hollywood’s Big Bet on Broadway Adaptations 2013-08-01T12:00:07Z That tall tale gets something right: Doubling the stuff that matters to us has been central to art since we put bison on cave walls. Seeing Double? So Do Great Artists. 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z From here, the novel rolls out like a tall tale as Shackleford recounts his formative years in the period leading up to and including Brown’s rebellion. ‘The Good Lord Bird’: John Brown and a scoundrel sidekick 2013-08-24T21:17:00Z “It’s not just about art – it’s about telling tall tales, and why it works.” Driven to Abstraction: the inside story of a $60m art forgery hoax 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z He described Mr. Bergantiños as a man brimming with confidence and prone to spinning tall tales. The Confidence, and the Art, Looked Real 2013-12-25T21:26:07Z Then, there's an elderly king in "King's Quest" relaying tall tales to his granddaughter. In reality, Project Morpheus, Oculus Rift aren't the most exciting things at E3 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z At some point in the swelling rhapsody around Harriet Tubman’s remarkable life, it is easy to wonder, with perhaps a bit of guilt, where Tubman’s heroism ends and tall tales begin. Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Beatty’s Hughes is a living collection of unpredictable changes, disjunctive tones, and tall tales. Warren Beatty’s Self-Sparing Embodiment of Howard Hughes 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Likewise, the desert, its coyotes and tall tales about the American West were now transporting a Manhattan kid to a world he had only seen in textbooks. On an Arizona Road Trip, Miles of Family Firsts 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z But what's even better is to take that base and spin a bunch of tall tales on top of it! George R.R. Martin enthusiastically recommends "The Great" on Hulu 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z In that setting, Burnett speak-sings his way through free-associative songs that contain biblical allusions, echoes of the blues, tall tales, lovers’ plaints and warnings about disinformation, the cult of personality and the encroachments of technology. T Bone Burnett Wants to Make Music to Heal Shrinking Attention Spans 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z But August is unquestionably a sympathetic character, and an endless source of fun, inventiveness, tall tales and generosity. Carsten Jensen's top 10 seafaring tales 2010-04-14T11:04:00Z One of the more colourful tall tales insisted that Cunningham was in fact the heir to a peerage. The Levellers take it to the next level ? the return of crusty 2011-02-17T23:21:01Z In his overweening interest in secrets and tall tales, in his relish for how stories are told, he’s taken the Salman Rushdie exit off the Paul Auster turnpike. A Mother Keeps Wartime Secrets in Michael Ondaatje’s New Novel 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Along the way he kept his ears open and took notes on local customs and rituals, games, tall tales, dances, songs. Mack McCormick, Student of Texas Blues, Dies at 85 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Anecdotes and tall tales from generations of distillers. Kentucky's Bourbon Country 2010-10-11T15:21:00Z A new thread soon develops around a passage in Khrushchev’s memoirs during which Stalin spins a tall tale about shooting 24 partridges. Milan Kundera’s new novel feels so very French 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z While he gives her some light punishment for telling her “tall tales,” he also cannot help asking if, in these supposed visions of hers, the Virgin was “muzungu” — meaning white. ‘Our Lady of Kibeho,’ a Katori Hall Drama Set in the 1980s 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z But if he’s not telling a tall tale, not exactly, he’s still spinning a story. Marco Rubio’s meritocracy myth: Helping corporations slash salaries and pocket the profits in the name of the “American dream” 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z It is a frontier town, one that likes a drink, a tall tale from the outback and a weekend spent camping, which is what I planned to do after a few days in town. In the Heart of the Outback, Safeguarding a Sacred Land 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z And of course, Munchausen is a raconteur extraordinaire, filled with tall tales and very much full of himself. Review: ‘Small Admissions,’ ‘Freebird’ and More 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Shelley arrives in the States believing the aunties’ tall tales about his cousin’s wealth and status, and he’s only briefly disappointed when he uncovers the truth. Immigration Is Hard. This Novel Turns the Struggle Into a Comedy of Errors. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z As far back as the 1960s, books like “Abiyoyo,” Pete Seeger’s lyrical tall tale set in a multicultural South African village, were popular with forward-thinking parents and their young. Children’s Primers Court the Littlest Radicals 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Bernhardt created herself relentlessly — filling her memoirs with tall tales about her origins, living her life on a scale that matched the epics in which she starred — as an act of resistance. Before Taylor Swift or David Bowie, There Was Sarah Bernhardt 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Some regional scholars say this part of the legend may be something of a tall tale. The autumnal apple stack cake is rich in flavor and Appalachian folklore 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z He was born in Siberia in 1869, and very little is known about his early life, which “helped to make possible the invention of all sorts of tall tales.” ‘Rasputin’ Unravels the Myths of the ‘Mad Monk’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Of the stories that swirled around Mr. Ford, some were tall tales in the oral tradition of old bluesmen. T-Model Ford, Late-Blooming Bluesman, Is Dead 2013-07-19T00:45:07Z I can attest that these cookies go great with the telling of tall tales and grand stories. Sugar, spice and everything nice: These southern "tea cakes" are perfect for fall entertaining 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z He has sung about drunks, tramps, carnies and killers, spinning tall tales and reeling off free-associations that somehow add up; he has also shown a vulnerable side in tender, unironic love songs. Arts & Leisure: Tom Waits?s New Album, ?Bad as Me? 2011-10-20T11:01:09Z Murray — an avid golfer who grew up caddying — played Carl Spackler, a deranged groundskeeper who spins tall tales about carrying the Dalai Lama’s golf bag. Bill Murray to receive top US comedy prize at Kennedy Center 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Another defect in “The Way of the Knife” is that it sometimes transmits the tall tales, hype or braggadocio of the people Mr. Mazzetti interviewed. Books of The Times: ‘The Way of the Knife,” by Mark Mazzetti 2013-04-24T21:39:27Z This tall tale begins with the Old Man of the title, whose job is to periodically fill the leaky moon with light. Theater Review: ‘The Old Man and the Old Moon’ at the Gym at Judson 2012-10-09T22:59:41Z The tradition of tall tales spun by the yeoman warder, or beefeater, guides is as old as the Line of Kings itself. Tower of London's Line of Kings continues 400-year-old narrative 2013-07-07T14:40:26Z When the family does connect, they do so over stories, through the Ashanti tales of before, and also through other fables that turn out not to be tall tales at all. For This Brooklyn Family, Myth and Reality Are One and the Same 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Her book topples several tall tales related to Washington, including one about his wooden teeth. Think You Know George Washington? 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z It was a concert of murder ballads and pleas for redemption, tall tales and tales of sorrow. Music Review: Kindred Spirits, Young and Mature 2010-10-21T22:10:00Z But Mr. Vollmann’s abiding interest here is in folklore, in tall tales, in ancient hatreds, and it’s a topic that plays to all of his weaknesses as a writer and few of his strengths. William T. Vollmann’s ‘Last Stories and Other Stories’ 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Her rationale: Williams permanently damaged his credibility with viewers when he told his tall tales, such as coming under attack while reporting in Iraq in 2003. A decision on Brian Williams’s future at NBC could be coming soon 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z After this incident, which carries a whiff of the tall tale—it is perhaps the type of story one tells to explain a much more common situation—Graham invoked his restrictions. Mike Pence’s Marriage and the Beliefs That Keep Women from Power 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Men don't need to raise a hand to strike women; they merely have to tell a tall tale. Men wield the media against women. Why do we keep letting them? 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z They can be wry and plainspoken, like the waltzing tall tale “Easter Eve,” or earnest and overreaching, like the attempted workingman’s parable “The West End.” Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z Art houses are showing films, people are drinking coffee and telling tall tales, women and men are confusing each other and record stores are selling discs full of soul that you haven't felt yet. Jack White: vinyl ambassador 2013-02-20T10:45:13Z He spun tall tales about learning the blues from a Black man he christened with a racial slur. The Face of Solo Guitar Is Changing. It’s About Time. 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Uncle Happiness lumbers onto the scene from America with a big bag of gifts and tall tales about a land akin to Sugar Candy Mountain. EC Osondu's top 10 immigrants' tales 2011-01-26T15:26:49Z Cosby boasts an arsenal of anecdotes and tall tales meant to inspire black higher learning. Bill Cosby is on the phone: “Wake up, man!” 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z The legend of The Devil in the White City is effectively a new American tall tale—and, like all the best tall tales, it sprang from a kernel of truth. The making of the White City Devil: How H.H. Holmes became a serial killer legend 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z It became totemic evidence that elevated the tall tale into reality. Sacred Carnality 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Rudy, in a last-ditch bid to scare up some new material, tape-records the rhymes, jokes and tall tales of a group of homeless men. ‘Dolemite Is My Name’ Review: Eddie Murphy, Raw and Cooking 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z While Malamadre is a ruthless gang leader, proud of his ability to dominate prison life, Juan Oliver plays on his paternal instincts and wins nearly everyone over with tall tales about a criminal past. 'Cell 211': Guard becomes locked in a web of lies in powerful prison drama 2010-09-30T20:43:00Z Robertson specialized in portraits of bygone figures and institutions, writing odes to Confederate soldiers, blacksmiths, medicine shows and whistle stops, his tall tales given weight and energy by the heft of the Band. Robbie Robertson, driving force behind roots-rock icons the Band, dies at 80 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z The preteen’s prank call came after an attorney for Carlee Russell admitted Monday that the Alabama woman spun a tall tale about her own abduction this month — which could also result in criminal charges. 11-year-old Florida girl hit with felony charges for 911 kidnapping prank 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z His friends never realized the deception, enthralled by his ability to weave a tall tale. What's so funny about acclaimed auteur Christian Petzold? A lot, it turns out 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z But current A.I. technologies frequently produce these kinds of tall tales — what experts call hallucinations — when asked about real people or events. Using A.I. in Everyday Life 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z A tall tale, like Bigfoot or the jackalope? Perspective | Massive waves of squirrels once roamed America. No one knows why. 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z This isn’t some old-timer’s tall tale: Lori Ford has been walking two miles down a dirt road, with snow past her knees, just to get to work this month. Endless winter: Rural Northern California set to endure yet another storm 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z The pope used the Spanish expression "Cuento Chino", meaning tall tales, to describe allegations that Benedict was saddened by some of his decisions. Late Pope Benedict's top aide to be given a new job 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Like ChatGPT, Galactica also played fast and loose with facts, making up mathematical proofs, misstating historical dates and spinning tall tales. Meta, Long an A.I. Leader, Tries Not to Be Left Out of the Boom 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Santos was satirized Saturday by Bowen Yang in multiple “Saturday Night Live” sketches as a flat-voweled, fabulist who meanders from hyperbole to boastful falsehoods to incomprehensible tall tales. Perspective | The ‘lying congressman’ and his crewnecks 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z The top prosecutor in Nassau County, New York, is investigating Mr. Santos for “fabrications and inconsistencies,” but the avenue to punish Mr. Santos for telling tall tales may be hard to find. Home of the whoppers: D.C. politicos’ long history of tall tales, embellishments, flat-out lies 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z In his popular anthropology classes at the University of Nebraska, he impressed upon his students the deeper truths lying within tall tales, urban legends and family lore. Roger Welsch, ‘America’s Premier Storyteller,’ Dies at 85 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z “Mr. Costello allegedly told many tall tales to convince victims to invest millions of dollars — money he then used for his own benefit,” said Nick Brown, U.S. Former Bellevue man nabbed in San Diego for cannabis, stock schemes 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Some tall tales have been raised by former president Donald Trump and his apologists to explain the presence of classified government documents among Trump’s things at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago. Opinion | What if Trump’s pile of papers is nothing more than a prop? 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Her legendary career has been lauded in print and tabloids, tall tales of adventure that have inspired a new generation of Tomb Raiders to seek their fortunes in the world. A leaked Tomb Raider script is looking pretty legit now that Square Enix DMCA’d it 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z These “milky seas” were rare enough, and strange enough, that people widely considered them to be tall tales—more plausible than mermaid encounters, perhaps, but just barely so. The Mystery of Milky Seas Is Finally Being Solved 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z “It was one of those tall tales,’’ he said. Long-Lost ‘Wizard of Oz’ Dress Goes on Display Before Auction 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Though dismaying to temperance reformers, public drinking naturally led to tall tales, boasting, and brawling, in which a celebration of republican virtue led to glorification of men’s personal power. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z After all, isn’t the entire history of D.C. filled with myths, tall tales and exaggerations? Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Confusing use of the word ‘propaganda’ 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Mike Fink, another subject of tall tales, was known for his strength and for bragging. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They thought Polo’s account was a marvelous collection of tall tales. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time one of his stories would fall apart under scrutiny — such as his ridiculous claim about a planned demolition of the E.U. headquarters — he was already on to the next tall tale. Opinion | The circus music is winding down for BoJo the Clown 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Methods of lie detection have probably been around for as long as tall tales have been told. True story? Lie detection systems go high-tech 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z The British prime minister’s career is littered with doctored quotes, tall tales, exaggerations and mistruths. Has rule-breaker Boris Johnson met his match in ‘partygate’? 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The tall tales were symbols of hard work and might, qualities those moving west needed. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Over time, some of the Riley stories from those days have come to drift into tall tales, depending on who’s telling them. 'How can a West Texas boy go to L.A.?' Lincoln Riley's journey from Muleshoe to USC 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z The right, meanwhile, has been spinning its own increasingly ludicrous tall tales about inflation. Opinion | Every time I think the inflation discourse can’t get dumber, I’m proven wrong 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z “It’s not a tall tale. I see that this disease kills, and strong immunity wouldn’t be enough — only a vaccine can offer protection,” said Melnik, 42, as he waited in Kyiv to get his shot. Vaccine reluctance in Eastern Europe brings high COVID cost 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Most of his tall tales amount to self-aggrandizement, but at least one was damaging to others. Biden caught repeating debunked Amtrak tale in Scranton speech 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Stories called tall tales told about Paul Bunyan, a giant lumberjack. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not even the likes of the Biden Justice Department would buy into and spin a tall tale like that,” Mr. Hull said. Dispute Over Claim That Proud Boys Leader Urged Attack at Capitol 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The news media gatekeepers would likely defend their choice to focus on Nicki Minaj's tall tale with an argument that stories about celebrities provide a way to pivot to larger issues of public concern. America is amusing itself to death — and the media still can't face the truth 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z He offered no proof to back up the tall tale, though that didn't stop the claims from spreading like wildfire in the conspiracy-laden conservative media ecosystem. Rudy Giuliani openly admits his election fraud "evidence" came from social media posts 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z He smiled when he said this, not unlike a grandfather who delights in telling children tall tales. How Your Cup of Coffee Is Clearing the Jungle 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Around campfires, tall tales have blossomed in the absence of answers. As Hikers Vanish, These Mountains Hold Tight to Their Mysteries 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z "The narrative of a rigid and dogmatic Europe is a tall tale." EXCLUSIVE French minister rejects UK Brexit renegotiation request 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Caralambo took U.S. citizenship and the name George Allen, living in Hollywood and dying near the San Gabriel Mission — not as a suicide after killing a man in New Mexico, as some tall tales went. Runaway animals are as L.A. as car chases. Here's why they make headlines 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Then again, given the scrutiny that Major League Baseball and its umpires have levied on Mariners reliever Hector Santiago since Sunday, Servais’ tall tale was not only plausible but believable. Is Hector Santiago’s glove black or gray? The Mariners’ reliever has his second glove controversy in a week. 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z For some Rastafari, it’s all just a tall tale. Rastafari scorn of Western medicine fuels Jamaican vaccine hesitancy 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Right now, Alamo tall tales stand in for reality because the largely Anglo elite ignores the Latino perspective without fear of repercussions. When will America finally dismantle its racist myths? Two powerful new books try 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z The former’s fame is the product of myth and tall tales; the latter is one of the most remarkable heroines in U.S. history. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Stop the false equivalency on Marjorie Taylor Greene and AOC 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z In the same way, visitors might learn from the Legends & Lore markers, which are less interested in straightforward history than traditional folk tales, tall tales, myths, folk songs, superstitions, dances, arts and crafts. New NC highway markers will highlight local history, lore 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z The book was “Ol’ Paul, the Mighty Logger,” by Glen Rounds, a collection of Paul Bunyan tall tales. She Kept a Library Book for 63 Years. It Was Time to Return It. 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Bush is recorded as having publicly touted this tall tale at least six times as he blew the bugle of war. Who truly was the most dishonest president? 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z To have political and civic leadership that is resistant to change, more comfortably telling tall tales, is not fit to have a say or to attend to the necessary work ahead. Editorial Roundup: West Virginia 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z The Lee of Reisman’s book is not just a teller of tall tales, a genial old huckster, an ambitious and shrewd promoter of both self and medium — although he is certainly all those things. Review: Stan Lee: Genius or huckster? A new biography of the Marvel creator weighs in 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Seems like all of Crouser’s best tall tales start and end with the shot put. Crouser confident he can top shot-put record again 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z No tall tale here: He sees that mark potentially falling again. Crouser confident he can top shot-put record again 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z Even without the president repeating conspiracy theories and egging people on from Twitter, these tall tales spread like wildfire online. Column: It is not just Trump. Blame California social media companies for DC riot too 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z In his campaign rallies, Trump sprinkled his speeches with tall tales about election malfeasance. Analysis | The biggest Pinocchios of 2020 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Finding a long-hidden treasure in the woods of Wyoming seems like a tall tale that would be told around a campfire, but it happens to be reality for Jack Stuef. A secretive treasure hunter is unmasked by a court case 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z No tall tale here: He sees that mark potentially falling again. Crouser confident he can top shot-put record again 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z Seems like all of Crouser’s best tall tales start and end with the shot put. Crouser confident he can top shot-put record again 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z The reason for our conversation today is the six-part Baron Munchausen-esque audio comedy The Barren Author, in which he plays the Brigadier, a spinner of deliriously tall tales. Rocky Horror's Richard O'Brien: ‘I should be dead. I've had an excessive lifestyle' 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z These tall tales often grow out of tiny truths, according to a study by the Election Integrity Partnership. Opinion | Election Day promises to be full of misinformation. Here’s how we can all stop its spread. 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z McBride framed his book as a tall tale — notebooks found in a church lockbox after a fire, in which someone has recorded Onion telling his story. ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Is Good TV. But Mix Art and Slavery at Your Peril. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z It’s a satire of tall tales, but not a distant, too-cool treatment. Review: Why do Americans idolize dumb Big Men? A delightful new spoof of the Tall Tale 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z As The Post’s Fact Checker noted, Trump’s convention speech was “a tidal wave of tall tales, false claims and revisionist history.” Opinion | Don’t let Trump’s distractions bury his record 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z A young journalist searches for the truth behind the tall tales told by his ailing father. Movies on TV this week, June 7: Mary Poppins; Finding Nemo 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z If anything, he felt bad for McNeilly after the tall tale took off. Nick Price says caddie was joking about being drunk during his record-setting round at the 1986 Masters - Golf Digest 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Then his own senior moments started to worsen, his tall tales growing ever more outlandish. Horace was the vivacious one; Vi kept him grounded. After nearly 75 years of marriage, covid-19 claimed them days apart. 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z But none of these wrote tall tales, which present a particular challenge to a novelist: They allow the writer to be freewheeling but don’t leave much room for the reader’s empathy. Review: Why do Americans idolize dumb Big Men? A delightful new spoof of the Tall Tale 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z His inner circle of sycophants, lightweights and glib TV pundits, ill-managed by his dilettante son-in-law, might be good for a joke or a tall tale. Opinion | Trump has proven it. We’re on our own, America. 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z None of that is true, no matter how often Trump veers off into his awkward tall tales. Donald Trump's weird tales: His call to "liberate Virginia" is even worse than you think 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z On at least one occasion, someone roasted them with oil and vinegar - perhaps the kernel of truth in Charles Mackay's tall tale. Tulip Mania: When is a bubble not a bubble? 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z There should be no place in the newsroom for tall tales. How a top Nigerian bishop got caught up in fake news 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z “He can definitely spin the tall tales and is a master of fiction. But that doesn’t mean I buy into his alleged discovery claims,” underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence wrote on his blog in 2011. Clive Cussler, best-selling adventure writer who sought real-life thrills, dies at 88 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Recognise, Represent and Reset are as they were originally intended: tall tales of being an undercover cop, a juror and a criminal mastermind-turned-snitch, respectively. Streaming with laughter: the 50 best standup comedy shows 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z So while anti-vaccine screeds in general may get demoted and misleading advertisements banned, tall tales about a real-time public emergency are deleted entirely. Opinion | Facebook is taking aim at coronavirus misinformation. Others should follow suit. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z "Would this apply to the tall tales you tell and those networks allow @ewarren?" Warren plan would criminalize election-related online disinformation 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Doesn’t that seem like one of those tall tales that people tell to exaggerate an event’s significance? Opinion | Was the Virgin Mary a Virgin? Does It Matter? 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z That’s why some historians now wonder if it really happened or if it’s a tall tale that would make Baron Munchausen laugh with sheer delight. Review | Searching for the man behind the legend of Charlemagne 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Likewise, Trump’s own description of the video he claimed to have watched “like a movie” also sounded like a Trump tall tale — the bizarre embellishments of an obvious liar. So we're supposed to treat Donald Trump with respect, after all this? Oh, hell no 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z But there are also homegrown propagandists who sell upbeat stories to their own folks to keep up their spirits when the war is going badly by telling tall tales of victory and success. His own minister of propaganda: With the Syria debacle, Trump's lying tweets hit new low 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Mythic and tender by turns, these are tall tales from a lost frontier. The 100 best books of the 21st century 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z In response, you’ll get either an uncomprehending stare or an effusion of tall tales. Silicon Valley’s Crisis of Conscience 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z And she often regales customers with the tall tales that have sprung up on the island. Galveston: Red Light District Tours draw visitors, attention 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The entrepreneur took to Weibo to dismiss the Caixin story as a “totally tall tale” and to post photos of himself in San Francisco — showing he had not been banned from leaving China. Instead of lunch with Warren Buffett, Chinese entrepreneur Justin Sun eats humble pie 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z The already tall tale grew loftier over the centuries, and few of the tellers are to be trusted. A Live-Action “Aladdin” Falls Short of Its Animated Predecessor 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Increasingly at the top level that seems like a tall tale told to the gullible. You might not like it but star footballers not unpredictability turn on TV viewers | Sean Ingle 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Some were tall tales: Lithuanians hunting, roasting and eating British swans. Special Report: Wish You Weren't Here - Postcards from the Edge of... 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The wildly creative filmmaker and fine artist is a teller of modern-day tall tales, something of a cross between a burnout Mark Twain and an Andy Warhol of the Florida Keys. Check out and enjoy the ride: ‘The Beach Bum’ riffs on classic stoner films 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z “The tall tales just kept growing … disregard for the truth was not invented, merely taken to new heights, by Donald Trump in the 2016 campaign.” Clintons accused of nepotism in book on US-Ireland relations 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Little is known about his early life, mainly because of his tendency to tell tall tales in interviews. Obituary: Mark Hollis 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Guske had two goals: to persuade the rumor’s progenitors to publicly disavow their claims, and to find whatever kernel of truth had grown into the tall tale. When Facebook Spread Hate, One Cop Tried Something Unusual 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Plenty, in publishing and beyond, will no doubt shrug at these revelations and wonder where, really, lies the harm in Mallory’s tall tales. The talented Dan Mallory affair: is this high noon for the privileged white male? | Jonathan Freedland 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z It’s the sort of story that sounds like a tall tale, a hagiography, a myth. Love in a time of trash-eating mushrooms 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z One of them, Salman Rushdie’s “Shame,” an extravagant tall tale set in “not quite Pakistan” and laced with first-person authorial intrusions, rearranged his ideas about what writing could be. Why Marlon James Decided to Write an African “Game of Thrones” 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z He calls them the trophies of his hunt - not just the antiques but the patiently told yarns and tall tales of how they were used and preserved. Antiques dealer focuses on all things Nevada, the Wild West 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z There were a few pence to be made in telling tall tales — about the gallows and queens on the chopping block and ravens, too. The secrets of the Tower of London’s royal ravenmaster 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Propaganda, tall tales from campaign trails and outright lies date back to the nation’s founding, but the chaos of the 2016 disinformation campaign still stings. Twitter accounts in spreading of ‘fake news’ still active 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z How do you beat the tall tale of the Rockies’ week? Perspective | Baseball playoffs might not be fair, but that’s part of the thrill 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z It’s a testament to Janikowski’s legendary left leg that his list of accomplishments read more like tall tales. The story of Seahawks kicker Sebastian Janikowski and the 82-yard field goal 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z But less predictable is the mockery that seemingly tall tale is getting back home in Russia. Mission implausible: Russians mock improbable spy duo 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z “Sarah” is beholden to the “tall tale” aspect of King’s work, and his fascination with American folklore. Castle Rock is the perfect excuse to start watching Haven on Netflix 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z I even made an appearance at the state prison north of town, regaling inmates with tall tales of James the Butler’s professional background. A Butler Will Serve You Right 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Last year, I got an email at my Washington Post address from a Stephen Leonard who said he wanted to settle a question about an old tall tale in his baseball-loving family. Perspective | 49 years after D.C. last hosted, MLB All-Star Game remains a ‘You Had to Be There’ experience 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Edward’s tall tales feel truncated, underdeveloped, nor do they fully establish their roots in his everyday life. Review: A life told in tall tales; 'Big Fish' at the Chance Theater 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z An attempted reconciliation between a dying blowhard and his estranged son faces daunting challenges, given the patriarch’s propensity to repeat tall tales about the romantic quests of his youth. The 99 Seat Beat: 'Big Fish' at the Chance in Anaheim, free Shakespeare in Griffith Park 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z “The only way it could work is if he gets all of his celebrity friends to come aboard and tell tall tales from Hollywood,” Mr. Laermer said. Tom Arnold’s ‘The Hunt for the Trump Tapes’ threatens Vice’s brand of ‘hard-hitting’ journalism 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, Trump knows his constant stream of tall tales about immigrant gangs controlling American cities will gain traction, no matter how often they're debunked in the media. Public’s false view of immigrants is shaped by Trump propaganda: Time to fight back with some t... 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Hold that tiger: The tall tale of a tiger, the police and fake news in the suburbs of San Diego. Essential California: The Fourth of July's filthy air 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Big Fish Orange County premiere of this musical based on Tim Burton’s 2003 fantasy film about a son seeking the truth behind his father’s tall tales. The week ahead in SoCal theater, July 1-8: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' at Griffith Park and more 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z They are not just tellers of the tall tale, Layton suggests, but participants in and witnesses to it. Review | Like ‘I, Tonya,’ this new drama proves true crime can be both entertaining and profound 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Walter Pincus took Pentagon officials to task for “telling some pretty tall tales” regarding the need for low-yield nuclear warheads on U.S. submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Opinion | The use of low-yield nukes 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z First of all, that bit about being a leader for all Americans, color-blind if you will, was a tall tale. Obama administration was corrupt 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Top Pentagon officials are telling some pretty tall tales in seeking congressional support for a new, low-yield, nuclear warhead to put on a long-range, submarine-launched ballistic missile. Opinion | The Pentagon is seeking money for a new nuclear weapon. Congress should be skeptical. 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z These barflies are fabulists spinning tall tales about their own lives. A revelatory Denzel Washington in 'The Iceman Cometh' 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z A recounting of Ohtani’s exploits from his five seasons with the Fighters reads like plot points from a tall tale. Shohei Ohtani: the future of baseball or empty hype? 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Sasquatch suit: A tall tale of Bigfoot in Big Bear sparks a lawsuit. Essential California: Trump still at war with state over earthquake early warning system 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Though it's been criticized for its slanted perspective on what Yugoslavia used to be, "Underground" is nonetheless an absorbing and impressively ambitious piece of storytelling, filtering a complicated conflict through an amusing tall tale. New video: 'Loving Vincent' and 'The Girl Without Hands' show animation's creative boom 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z These folks should get on their knees and thank their lucky stars that the Times was willing to print their old tall tales as fact. New York Punk, Out of Retirement 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z It was all a tall tale, and not a very good one at that. Report Details Weinstein’s Covert Attempt to Halt Publication of Accusations 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z “But I can create a time capsule full of its stories and tall tales.” Denver's Colfax Avenue is jammed with history, freaks, neon. Its champion is an Elvis impersonator, of course 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z But the comparison is less a cautionary tale than a tall tale. The Democrats’ Kansas Distraction 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z His attorney says that prosecutors were “hoodwinked” by the witnesses’ “tall tales.” Liberian rebel commander guilty of immigration fraud 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z If this were the only tall tale Cassidy and his cohorts were telling, it might seem like a manageable level of mendacity, but it’s actually just the start. Trump isn't the only one fibbing about the GOP's health care plan 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Simonton heard the story from a farmer in 1997 and thought it was a tall tale until he began researching it and discovered newspaper accounts and other documents and photos. Franklin County outlaw spurred massive 1940 manhunt 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z As in the movie and Daniel Wallace’s source novel, the stage version centers on Edward Bloom, an Alabama traveling salesman whose tall tales both charm and infuriate his family, friends and neighbors. ‘Big Fish’: The magical movie spawned a musical that’s coming to D.C. 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z When I first heard about Alan Turing as a young man in the Soviet Union, it sounded like a tall tale. 'I was hooked for life': science writers on the books that inspired them 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z There is one tall tale, however, that ought to inspire a great deal of skepticism: I will be able to pay for myself in my old age. Plan on Growing Old? Then the Medicaid Debate Affects You 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z “I’m not telling any tall tales,” I said. Spotting Celebrities on His Lunch Break 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z “He said his investors were part of the royal family of Abu Dhabi! It was this tall tale that just seemed extremely bizarre,” recalled Rey in an interview. Counselor at Seattle’s Garfield High School keeps job despite financial-fraud fine 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Farah did not include in his list of concussions Hemingway’s flirtations with boxing, or accounts of head injuries he could not verify or which he suspected were the author’s tall tales. The same brain disease battering the NFL may have killed Ernest Hemingway 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Selzer calls Holmes' legend "a new American tall tale," saying he was a con man and "pathological liar" who after getting caught sat "in a prison cell spinning yarns for the press." Is 'Devil in White City' buried in tomb? Remains to be unearthed to find out 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z The colonial records that Fawcett had cited were seen as akin to the old stories of towering Amazons: tall tales invented to impress royal patrons. The Lost City of Z 2005-09-12T04:00:00Z “My granddad was good at telling tall tales,” Mr. Kristiansen said. Danish Father and Son Team Up on Homework and Turn In a German Warplane 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Closer to home, my father-in-law is a majestic teller of tall tales. If Rory McIlroy must play golf with Trump we need some juicier details | Marina Hyde 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z One of his favorite tall tales is the miraculous “comeback” story. Trump’s strategic vision of chaos: Inventing a nonexistent crisis so he can “solve” it 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Spaghetti dinner, followed, at 6 p.m., by an InterAct Story Theatre production of “The Legend of Pufferfish Pat,” a brand-new tall tale of the Old West that helps children learn how to handle anger. Religion events from around the Washington area 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z All week long, news organizations chased down one Trump tall tale after another. ‘Up Is Down’: Trump’s Unreality Show Echoes His Business Past 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z He found a tall tale about Mexico planning to call back its citizens from the United States if Mr. Trump won. Inside a Fake News Sausage Factory: ‘This Is All About Income’ 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Of course, the official most vehement in pushing that line is Ben Rhodes, the White House spinmeister who admitted telling tall tales on the Iran nuclear deal. Editorials from around New York 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z In a region of the state and country built on farming, agricultural history includes tall tales, hard work and the tug of emotion. Thousands of Indiana properties in same family 100 years 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Ronald Reagan famously insisted on repeating tall tales; he conflated Hollywood with reality. Welcome to the post-truth presidency 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z For children who persistently ask “why” about everything, Hughes provided tall tales to explain animal origins, using the bizarre logic that children’s fiction thrives upon. How did the whale get its “moustache”? | Elsa Panciroli 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z But like the comedian who makes jokes to avoid being bullied, Slick Rick invented tall tales as a response to his teasing classmates at school. Slick Rick: ‘You learn from prison time – what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Other examples of such tall tales abound in the world of coin collecting. More discoveries of 1883 US-minted coin found in Deadwood 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Trusted news organisations are needed to debunk such tall tales. How technology disrupted the truth | Katharine Viner 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z In previous generations, though, ink-stained wretches at newspapers, desiring nondigital page views, were most likely the sources of tall tales that fooled thousands. What New York Hoaxes Have Rivaled the One on the Scary Clowns? 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z They can continue to comfort themselves with their tall tales about an opposition and a country that no longer and may never have existed, drifting further and further away from the realities of today's America. Why Democrats Dominate 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z I was so certain it was a tall tale that I was embarrassed to ask Mike when I saw him at school drop-off. The Anti-Helicopter Parent’s Plea: Let Kids Play! 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The problem with that tall tale, and the vast majority of the hundreds of purported Racketeer Nickels available for purchase online, is that they are all unproved, according to Akin. More discoveries of 1883 US-minted coin found in Deadwood 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z But it fits so well with his xenophobic worldview that it’s fair to assume it played some part in his obsession with the tall tale. Peak Trump madness: With a month to go, Donald Trump’s supporters descend into conspiracy-theory insanity 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z There will be so much talk of “even year” magic and billy goat curses that the games will be at best a distraction compared to the tall tales and superstitions. Forecast for Baseball Playoffs: Persistent Drought 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z You will be the people legends are written about, you might be the next Abraham Lincoln, people might tell tall tales of your hidden wealth or you might be known for your infamous villainy. Prepared to die: meet the people willing to risk their lives to visit Mars 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Pittman has deep roots in the state, and his joyous deconstruction is offered with the humor, zest and storytelling skill of a roomful of uncles telling tall tales at a family funeral. Yes, a lot of crazy things happen in Florida. Don’t hold that against us. 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z But other scientists say the story is nothing but a tall tale. Lucy, our hominid cousin, may have died in a tragic fall from a tree 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z “Guadalupe Peak is the highest place you can get in a state full of tall tales and big history.” The essential guide to all 59 U.S. national parks 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z A forest ranger who's convinced she's explored every inch of these woods, Grace pooh-poohs her dad's tall tales, as what sane person wouldn't. 'Pete's Dragon' is old-school Disney in the best way possible 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Many tall tales that Trump told Schwartz contained a kernel of truth but made him out to be cleverer than he was. Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z The intrepid congressmen chased after a string of tall tales about Hillary Clinton’s role in the deaths of four Americans — including U.S. Bill Clinton spoils Hillary’s moment of liberation from Benghazi 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The biggest tall tale from Trump is that he wants to be president. Don’t Assume Donald Trump’s Supporters Believe All His Words 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z In 1951, British physician Richard Asher described three cases of what he called Munchausen’s syndrome — named after a fictional character who told absurd tall tales about his many adventures — in the Lancet. Who would fake a tragedy on Facebook just to get sympathy and attention? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Murray - an avid golfer who grew up caddying - played Carl Spackler, a deranged groundskeeper who spins tall tales about carrying the Dalai Lama’s golf bag. Bill Murray to receive top US comedy prize at Kennedy Center 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Running through the list of tall tales on his Wikipedia page, Valdez smiles a patronizing smile and nods a knowing nod. Sounders’ Nelson Valdez wants to add to long list of memorable moments on and off field 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Because with the best will in the world, when you’ve got dozens of different writers spinning tall tales about outrageous characters, things are going to get weird. DC Rebirth: Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman get rebooted … again 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Some tall tales may be wholly or partly true, others are almost certainly fabricated by the regime’s many enemies. The Observer profile / Kim Jong-un: The tyrant’s son who wants to be loved and feared 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Like the bluesmen of his day, he got to know the country by train, and his songs told tall tales. Paul Burch pays homage to godfather of country Jimmie Rodgers 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z "Local folklore has it that there was a woman who used to walk around Loudoun Square with two tigers but then seamen were known for their tall tales," says Neil. #towerlives: Rise of towers and fall of Tiger Bay - BBC News 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Whitaker plays Erie, a low-level gambler and spinner of tall tales about himself. ‘I want a challenge’ _ Forest Whitaker on Broadway debut 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Mrs. Clinton’s Trump tall tale also raises a question about her own view of ISIS. To Spite ISIS 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z The making of those movies are mythic tales in their own right, and “The Revenant” arrives with its own tall tales of on-set tussles and actor derring-do. Review: Savagery and virtuosity mingle in ‘The Revenant’ 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z It features more than 80 examples of tall tale postcards from around the United States, each of which demonstrate a unique form of humor that dates back to the early 20th Century. Postcards depict corn the size of tree trunks, ‘Jackelopes’ 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Or presidential candidate Ben Carson, who’s under fire for two tall tales he told: one about being offered a scholarship to West Point and another about trying to stab a friend in childhood. How I teach my students not to trust their memories 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z And as fans continue to treat his career like a Paul Bunyan tall tale come to life, it is possible that he just reached up and lifted the ceiling by himself. 7 Feet, 7 Blocks: Kristaps Porzingis Looms Ever Larger 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Related: Ben Carson's lies reveal a fundamental truth about candidates' tall tales | Mike Daisey At campaign stops in Alabama, Carson said halting Syrian resettlement in the US doesn’t mean America lacks compassion. Ben Carson: screen Syrian refugees like they might be rabid dogs 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z In addition to describing the theories, their origins and the reality of the situation, we take on some of the chief enablers of these destructive tall tales. 10 right-wing conspiracy theories that have slowly invaded American politics 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z The expectation from the Carson camp is that he and his fellow Republicans should apparently be allowed to introduce with impunity various ridiculous policy proposals while concurrently fabricating ludicrous tall tales about their pasts. It’s time to rake Ben Carson over the coals: Enough of the GOP’s victim complex — it’s not persecution to face tough questions 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z If his life story – literally the basis for an inspirational movie – is filled with tall tales, exaggerated to manufacture imagined heroism, there’s not much left to his often bizarre candidacy. Ben Carson's credibility, personal history under fire 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Some tombstone inscriptions are nothing more than tall tales. Tombstones of past alive with details 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Yesterday’s column opened with Bill Clinton telling a tall tale about his 1992 campaign. Demons in the Apocrypha 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z But Trump is the first office seeker to tell a real American tall tale about all the money he's got. A Point of View: The rude, vulgar US presidential election - BBC News 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z In real life, however, it is surprisingly difficult to recognize when someone is telling a tall tale. Groups of People Spot Lies More Often Than Individuals Do 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z In the same speech, Perry raised the tired tall tale that government lending standards and Rep. Barney Frank inflated the housing bubble. A Lament for Rick Perry 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z The history of the Cowboy Bar is populated with drifters, outlaws and outliers, and its present proprietor brims with wild yarns and tall tales. The latest tale of woe at Wyoming's Cowboy Bar: It's for sale 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z When news anchor Brian Williams was caught telling tall tales, pants on fire, earlier this year, the “scandal” was depicted as a moment of soul-searching for the American media. Just when we need political satire more than ever, Jon Stewart bows out | Hadley Freeman 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Like many, the U.S.-born son of Mexican immigrants grew up hearing the tall tales of El Chapo. For some, El Chapo remains a folk hero after escape 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z She never explains how this son of a Democrat from Long Island became a ferocious right-winger prepared to invent tall tales about his government. How the Chamber of Commerce allied with the right and lost effectiveness 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z For every applicant who fails to hoodwink embassy staff with tall tales and fake documents, there are others who succeed. Why visa rejections do not halt Nigerian migrants - BBC News 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z The store’s playful name is meant to evoke tall tales, but it is fitting in other ways. The Bookstore Built by Jeff Kinney, the ‘Wimpy Kid’ 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Beyond the mementos and memories, the storytelling and the inevitable tall tales, what was the essence of Lewiston’s legacy event, its single round of fame, or infamy? The Night the Ali-Liston Fight Came to Lewiston 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z As editors recently wrote, "Reporters William 'Dan De Quille' Wright, James 'Lying James' Townsend and Samuel 'Mark Twain' Clemens perfected the art of the Western tall tale with articles that became legendary for their wit." Nevada newspaper where Mark Twain made his name is back in business 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z And, after all, isn’t Ireland the land of embroidered truths, the land of blarney and tall tales that flow as freely as thick dark beer? Remember the Maryland All Stars? Someone might in Ireland. 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Twain was among a group of talented journalists at the newspaper who perfected the art of the western tall tale with articles that became legendary for their wit, he added. Nevada newspaper where Mark Twain got start is revived 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Samuel Clemens, Twain’s real name, assumed his pen name and developed his penchant for western tall tales when he was a reporter from 1862 to 1864 at the feisty newspaper in Virginia City. Nevada newspaper where Mark Twain got start revived 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z The Clinton fabrication was in fact even more devious, more calculated and more disturbing than Williams’ tall tale. Williams Gets Shelved While Hillary Gets a Pass 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Some speculate that the NBC news anchor started telling tall tales to appear more interesting as he made the rounds on the late-night talk shows. Brian Williams suspended for it, but everybody embellishes 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Whatever happens, the cautionary note here: A string of tall tales went on for years unchecked by Williams' peers at the best networks and newspapers, as well as the usual chorus of media critics. Brian Williams' Iraq Lies Shows Media Is Too Cozy With the Military 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z NBC is reportedly launching an internal investigation into Mr. Williams reporting of the incident and may also scrutinize other tall tales from the reporter, including his reporting from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Brian Williams said he looked ‘down the tube’ of fired RPG, new video reveals 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z But at this month's meeting, no one felt like telling tall tales. Plunging oil prices choke off boom in Bakersfield 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Ryan later said he regretted failing to verify the tall tale. The biggest Pinocchios of 2014 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z People usually embellish their credentials by falsifying information on their resumes or LinkedIn profiles - or they tell tall tales at cocktail parties about what they’ve done in the past. Brian Williams suspended for it, but everybody embellishes 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z One of his defense attorneys, Edward MacMahon, told jurors that testimony was “a tall tale, a whopper.” 9/11′s funding mystery solved? Why Moussaoui is suddenly offering new info 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Plenty of people, inside and outside the newsroom, were skeptical of Cooke’s tall tale of an 8-year-old heroin addict with no last name and rather stilted diction. Ben Bradlee's Electric Glow 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z But Quinn said Rauner was “going around Illinois telling a lot of tall tales” about how the Republican would be able to cut taxes while boosting funding for schools and public works. Quinn, Rauner unleash negativity in final debate 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Like Smith spinning up a tall tale during his podcast, the film's story feels more like something that you'd hear around a campfire than during a scary movie — and it’s just as off the cuff. 'Tusk' review: Kevin Smith turns a weird podcast into an even weirder movie 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z She regards Gillespie as a huckster, constantly devising new Earhart tall tales to raise money for his group. Metal may offer clue to Earhart’s missing plane 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z He said Mr. Merritt loved to tell tall tales of his supposed connections to intelligence agencies and Watergate. Takeover of Kenmore Hotel: Informer Recalls His Complicity 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z It was the heyday of the New York/Los Angeles sports rivalry, filled with big characters and tall tales. New York and L.A.: Together Again, in a Sports Final 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z So when confronted with stories of naked, chicken-eating runners, and reports of races published decades after they took place, it's easy to dismiss the old times as errors or tall tales. The 18th Century four-minute mile 2014-05-08T23:29:32Z His doctor reported that Gage turned capricious after recovering, and began telling tall tales and “indulging ... in the grossest profanity.” Opinion: Beyond the Damaged Brain 2014-05-03T18:33:28Z In Walker’s telling, Ryan looms as large as Paul Bunyan, but these are no tall tales. Baseball’s greatest songs: 27 perfect songs, from Springsteen, Dylan and more 2014-03-29T15:00:00Z And as tall tales tend to do, says Winker, the legend spread. American Finns take on St Patrick 2014-03-16T00:56:30Z I guess along with being tall goes telling tall tales even when you know they are not true even while asserting you are an agent of ethics and morality. The Five Top "Fibs" Told By Sprint Management in 2012-13 2013-12-26T18:33:00Z Most of us are pretty truthful—and even tall tale tellers tell the truth about lying. Big Liars Are Truthful About Lying 2013-12-19T18:15:01.945Z This 45-year-old trophy was becoming its own legend, and like so many, this was just the latest tall tale. How Heisman Trophy winners have stored their hardware 2013-12-09T16:30:06Z Stories of his athletic exploits ballooned into tall tales. The Legend of Jadeveon Clowney 2013-08-21T17:58:51Z Before that, little Nate Robinson inspired the tall tale of a Game 4, triple-overtime win at the United Center that Bulls fans will recount for years. Nice run hardly answers all questions 2013-05-12T00:23:00Z The Gruppetto is all ears when it comes to tall tales, but then it remembers its journalism training and returns to propriety. The Gruppetto: 24 hours at the Giro d'Italia 2013-05-08T22:14:37Z The construction of the Empire State building reads like a tall tale. Empire State Building: A NYC Icon 2013-05-01T08:35:00Z During Cubby’s childhood, his father spun tall tales for him seemingly without effort; their version of Santa operated out of Boston Harbor, and his elves delivered toys from unmarked vans. Books: Father and Son, Sharing Life With Asperger’s 2013-04-22T20:24:32Z What goes unmentioned in these tall tales of “Vladimir the Vanquisher of the Oligarchs” is what happened to the rest of them. Berezovsky’s Dubious Legacy 2013-04-01T08:45:00Z Defense attorneys at trial said those crimes were unsubstantiated "tall tales." Ohio set to execute man convicted of killing store security guard 2013-03-06T11:37:46Z They had flown, and were flying still, farther than anyone had in the manner dreamed of in centuries of tall tales, from Icarus to Superman — cheeks in the wind, like a bird. Two Men. One Sky. The Silent Realization of a Purer Form of Flight 2013-01-12T20:22:14Z Because in the end, after all the accomplishments and tall tales, Ray Lewis is still the former defensive back from Bartow. The Fifth Down: Ray Lewis: Linebacker, Leader 2013-01-05T18:57:03Z In the infantry-bred world of Army Special Operations, the authors write, “No one wants to hear braggarts telling tall tales of their heroics,” while “a culture of boasting and arrogance continues to haunt the SEALs.” Bin Laden Book’s Navy Author Was Slighted, Account Says 2012-09-03T00:47:27Z "Country folks like to tell tall tales," he said. Lens Blog: Adál Maldonado's Puerto Rican Identity Quest 2012-08-28T09:00:26Z Amusingly, Mr. Cade’s jaunty Dorante never seems to be fazed by contradictions to his tall tales but instead breezily improvises even greater whoppers in response. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘The Liar,’ at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey 2012-07-14T05:11:44Z Witnesses later told a passing captain that the abduction was a tall tale: they said the woman, who was much younger than Mr. Savory, eagerly joined the marauders, leading them to his hidden wealth. Fewer Westerners Remain on Remote Japanese Island 2012-06-09T18:55:33Z Despite some tall tales, Feffer said that “the notion that we limited sales is simply not the case.” Bats: Invasion of the Phillies Fans 2012-05-04T17:19:54Z A fine attempt to put to rest the tall tale that employers ask for Facebook passwords as a condition of employment. Disruptions: Google and Facebook Grow Comfortable and Complacent 2012-04-22T15:00:48Z Those 10 plays unselfconsciously shifted between realism and ghost story, tall tale and religious experience. Pedophile Goes Driving With Reaser: Yale Rep’s ‘Goods’: Review 2012-02-14T14:06:38Z He cultivated the news media, often with tall tales. Jonathan Idema, Con Man and Afghan Bounty Hunter, Dies at 55 2012-01-30T01:16:02Z As with any tradition, though, tall tales about the shower abound. A Splashy Football Tradition, Gatorade Style 2012-01-20T15:11:55Z The level of corruption is infamous; the inefficiency of the bureaucracy the stuff of tall tales. Is India?s Government Killing its Economic Miracle? 2012-01-18T13:45:16Z Told in a hybrid of wild west tall tale and Homeric scope, it would be an injustice to try and summarize the plot, so just trust me on this one. SciFi Books For People Who Hate SciFi - A Holiday Guide 2011-12-20T17:00:45Z “The tall tales in this elaborate scheme included phony taste tests and other false information that was used to convince investors they were investing in something special.” Feds Charge 'Rudy' -- Yes, That 'Rudy' -- With Stock Fraud 2011-12-17T00:35:22Z In this splendid one-hour play, a tall tale set in Appalachia, a father embarks on an Odysseus-like trek to attend his daughter’s wedding. ArtsBeat Blog: New York Fringe Festival Report: 'The Mountain Song' 2011-08-23T18:52:53Z Such tall tales help pessimists peddle books and grab attention, but there’s no reason to fear these companies—or expect that they will stay in the catbird’s seat forever. Of "Tech Titans" and Schumpeter's Vision 2011-08-22T16:31:43Z Because the story strikes me as either completely false or greatly exaggerated -- the kind of tall tale Sarah Palin might invent about herself. The bully the GOP has been waiting for 2011-08-18T01:01:00Z “Middle-class families know his economic record is no miracle -- it’s a tall tale,” the Obama campaign e-mail said. Perry Kicks Off Presidential Run Against ‘Rudderless’ Leadership 2011-08-14T04:22:01Z Thus, a liar might have often perceived that his tall tale was accepted when, in truth, the whopper's falsity merely was not confronted. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z When panic becomes the norm, it becomes more difficult for the public to take seriously those who propagate such tall tales. Don't Panic Over Looming Cybersecurity Threats 2011-08-07T23:53:12Z It is at least as much about the post experience story, the tall tales we tell each other and the passions that those experiences inspire in us. How The $1million Netflix Prize Spurred a Radical Innovation, Accidentally 2011-06-28T18:49:49Z Telling tall tales may be a matter of pride in Texas. Texas Bill Adds a Grain of Salt to Fish Tales 2011-05-12T02:11:06Z More powerful than a fax machine, able to release tall tales in a single tweet. You're the Boss: Do P.R. People Have to Like the Food? 2011-03-03T12:00:15Z In Thorntown, a comedian’s nightmare: Lincoln starting telling one of his famous tall tales – and the train began to pull away before he got to the punch line. Disunion: Farewell to Springfield 2011-02-11T03:00:25Z They generated so many tall tales of Bourbon Street escapades that if only half were true, Chicago's 46-10 destruction of the Patriots on that Sunday was even more impressive than it seemed. Super Bowl players have often found trouble off field heading into game 2011-01-31T04:43:05Z But don’t give me any tall tale about being rescued by a Prince Charming disguised as a frog!” Swamp Island 2011-01-28T03:00:22.400Z And no more tall tales about falling into wells!” The Wishing Well 2010-12-20T17:12:27.090Z He would be the subject of folk songs, star in countless tall tales, and be immortalized in bronze alongside Michael Jordan outside Chicago’s United Center. Off the Dribble: The Bulls' Rose Also Rises 2010-10-19T21:11:00Z Pax, the gym owner, said the tall tale wouldn't make city residents more resistant to help out the next time someone is in need. Few in Wash. City Are Angry at Acid Hoax Woman 2010-09-17T23:18:00Z They say he talked a lot, was a teller of tall tales who longed to fit in, but who nevertheless experimented with alcohol, could not keep a job and had repeatedly threatened suicide. A Crisis in Amish Country 2010-09-03T00:40:00Z No off-the-wall analogies or tall tales of the Mill's morning. Football transfer rumours: Shay Given to Fulham? 2010-08-17T08:33:00Z Welcome to another edition of Fantasy Fix, where we'll start by telling a tall tale. PGA Tour: Fantasy Fix: Greenbrier Classic 2010-07-26T04:00:00Z From the myth of Pecos Bill to the true but muddled story of the Alamo, Texas is rich with tall tales, mystery and legend. California Gets The Nod In This Rivalry 2010-05-18T04:00:00Z That, though, is the sense here, a fractured lens of rumors, tall tales and the fleeting images of occasional television. 2010-01-29T07:36:00Z O learned man who never learned to learn, Save to deduce, by timid steps and small, From towering smoke that fire can never burn And from tall tales that men were never tall. The Ballad of St. Barbara And Other Verses It could be that he was being told a tall tale. The Pirates of Ersatz If you think I'm going to tell this tall tale over and over again for the next two weeks you're all crazy. Masters of Space Or had every bit of that tall tale been invented by the Survey officer for some obscure purpose of his own, certainly no sane purpose? Storm Over Warlock "Someday maybe this will be just another tall tale and we'll all be thought liars when we spout it," he observed. Voodoo Planet On our second trip to Florida, Lieutenant Olsson and I heard story after story about the man's aptitude for dreaming up tall tales. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects The tourist visiting the churches is often incredulous about the tall tales told about them; but he is completely credulous about the tallest of all the tales, the tale that is told against them. The New Jerusalem The American imagination at work: tall tales and folk tales. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1975 July - December A collection of tall tales of the adding machine variety. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations Now, I don't want to hear any more of your tall tales, Dorothy. Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz It never went farther than that, but they told each other some tall tales. L'Assommoir I am quite aware that some may think this a tall tale for the tea-leaves to relate! Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves It sounds a fairly tall tale, but we've heard taller from chaps who were at the front. The Happy Adventurers And the youth of Athens, fallen upon softer ways, listen with envious incredulity to such tall tales. Nonsenseorship He's a wanderer, a teller of tall tales, a man who doesn't conceal his acquaintance with all the blackest and bloodiest scenes on earth. The Club of Queer Trades |
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