Now, between the time change and my state of pure exhaustion, I have to admit (and you've probably gathered) that I slept a good portion of my first few days on Oahu away -- those ocean breezes are just as great as Elvis always claimed they were.
The dead invade to cleanse the living, as he always claimed.
Whether or not he once belonged to Hogarth, as Sickert always claimed, is something about which George has not yet spoken.
Hoffman also shows that Puller's involuntary retirement from the Marine Corps was in fact for ill health -- including a stroke and a serious heart problem -- and not a punishment for outspokenness, as he always claimed.
Michael Jackson's autopsy has revealed that, as he always claimed, he had a skin condition, leading to white patches, and depigmentation, and he hadn't tried to turn himself white.
Hit songs never just come out of the blue Just as Paul McCartney always claimed that the tune for Yesterday came to him, fully formed, in a dream, so David is quoted as saying of his songs that "the ones that come out of the blue are probably the best ones".
It was sheer rodomontade when he told men working under him during the last days of the war, "I will jump into my grave laughing, because the fact that I have the death of five million Jews [or "enemies of the Reich," as he always claimed to have said] on my conscience gives me extraordinary satisfaction".
The other troubling claim Cockrel makes is her treatment of "rights" as discrete and particular -- some rights are less important in certain places rather than others -- rather than universal, as liberals have always claimed as a fundamental, bedrock principle.
Grillo and the Five Stars may capitalise on the government's intransigence, now that the party system has proven itself to be as cravenly cynical as they had always claimed.
