Word: bogus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...second joke played on WAC in as many months, signs which appeared in the Yard on January 11 proclaimed Bobbitt as WAC's "Woman of the Year" and advertised a bogus speech...
...sense rules of parental vigilance. For the especially worried, New York State clearinghouse on missing children manager James Stanco suggests knowing exactly, rather than approximately, what your children are wearing in the event you must describe them, and introducing a family password to prevent their walking away with a bogus relative. But, cautions James Fox, dean of Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice, "we should not make them panicky and make them lose their childhood. You don't want them to think that everyone they meet is a potential serial killer...
...Father. Daniel Day Lewis stars as Gerry Conlon, the Belfast man who, while on a London spree in 1975, was unjustly arrested, convicted and jailed as an I.R.A. terrorist. The British police in charge of the case were no Miss Marples; they tortured the four major suspects to extract bogus confessions. In director Jim Sheridan's tense retelling of this shameful chapter in British jurisimprudence, the lads are smacked, threatened and humiliated. And Gerry's saintly father (Pete Postlethwaite), jailed with him, is allowed to die slowly, with little medical attention. By the end of the movie, whether...
...rest of the week, reports of the shuttle's progress in space had to compete for air time with lurid tales of bribes, kickbacks and a bogus kidney- stone machine. Most of the stories focused on an FBI agent, posing as a businessman, who waved cash in front of NASA employees at Houston's Johnson Space Center to interest them in a "lithotriptor" -- a device that dissolves kidney stones with ultrasound. While such devices do exist and might actually serve a purpose in space (where kidney stones can develop in weightlessness), this one was just a box filled with lights...
...stands, Merlyn plays like a bad game of Dungeons and Dragons: lots of bogus sorcery and very little excitement...