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"We are not happy with China," Trump said at a White House briefing. "We are not happy with that whole situation because we believe it could have been stopped at the source."

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China decries 'barefaced lies' over its handling of virus | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
China on Tuesday went on the offensive against international criticism over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, accusing US politicians of “barefaced lies”. The new virus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year before spreading across the world, and countries including th...

The cakes are the object of a long-standing fertility ritual.

How Phallic Cakes Became the Mascot of a Conservative Portuguese Town

Every baker in Amarante is in on the action.

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"The coinage “post-truth politics”, indeed, implies that there was once a golden age of politics in which its elevated practitioners spoke nothing but perfect truth. The sun never dawned on such a day. But perhaps what feels new to us now is the shamelessness of the lying, and the barefaced repeating of a lie repeatedly debunked."

The Dance Master With Kaleidoscope Eyes

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Busby Berkeley’s choreography was at its most distinctive (and distinctively photographed) in “The Gang’s All Here,” his first color film. More Photos >

In “The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat,” from “The Gang’s All Here,” Carmen Miranda is joined by a long line of barefoot chorus girls who carry giant bananas aloft, lowering them to the ground in what now brings to mind a stadium-style wave. As an overhead camera passes by, 12 dancers, linked at the feet and holding jumbo strawberries, form a star while others surround them, raising and lowering their bananas like petals on a flower. (Berkeley was always up for a bit of surreal, phallic fun.)

phallic

ˈfalɪk/

adjective

1. relating to or resembling a phallus or erect penis.

   "a phallic symbol"

   • PSYCHOANALYSIS

     of or denoting the genital phase of psychosexual development, especially in males.

     "the phallic phase"

barefaced 

Pronunciation: /bɛːˈfeɪst/ 

ADJECTIVE

1Shameless and undisguised:a barefaced lie

More example sentencesSynonyms

2Having an uncovered face:his years of working barefaced, breathing down dust

barefoot

Pronunciation: /ˈbɛəfʊt/ 

(also barefooted /bɛəˈfʊtɪd/)
ADJECTIVE& ADVERB

Wearing nothing on the feet:[AS ADVERB]: I won’t walk barefoot

surreal
adjective
strange; not like reality; like a dream:
Driving through the total darkness was a slightly surreal experience.
Buñuel's films have a surreal quality.

Surrealism
noun [U] SPECIALIZED
a type of 20th century art and literature in which unusual or impossible things are shown happening

Surrealist
noun [C], adjective SPECIALIZED

surrealistic
adjective
not like reality; very unusual or impossibleMedical Dictionary:

penitis 陽具

(pē-nī'tĭs)
n.
Inflammation of the penis. Also called phallitis.