The filming of "Pleasantville" also required building of an entire town, which Ross wanted running rampant with false nostalgia to set up the need for colorized lives.

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Just as the first set of assertions have been shown to be false, the current conventional wisdom is becoming ever more palpably wrong.

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The polished nature of that presentation may have set a false expectation that "The Muppets" was ready to arrive fully formed, while the first two episodes are typical of most comedy pilots: more potential than achievement.

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He also asked for money to set up a car hire business in Malta and for false surgery, an incision which would leave a scar, for example, so that he could avoid military service in Libya.

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After being elected in 1994, he formally pronounced it to be false, while taking modest steps towards making it real: he set up an advisory council on race issues, and appointed Pele, a legendary footballer, as probably Brazil's first black minister.

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The same year the False Claims Act was amended, Phillips set up Taxpayers Against Fraud, a nonprofit group out to aid whistleblowers.

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