Word: charlatan
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...last week, Lanza himself was feeling the urge to fly. The military authorities, reluctantly bowing before the winds of medical indignation, had booted him out of his hospital post. An ex-patient sued him, newspapers denounced him as a charlatan, and the Colegio Médico sent out bulletins warning other Latin American medical societies against him. Sadly, Lanza prepared to depart for Mexico...
Toto's ragged flock takes such childlike joy in simple pleasures that its members naively pay admission to a charlatan for a view of the sunset, romp happily through a snake dance when they discover water gushing out of the ground. Then the gushers turn out to be oil, and a plutocrat snaps up the property on a tip from the camp's opportunistic sourpuss (Paolo Stoppa). The plutocrat sends his private police to oust the squatters...
...cast, only David Black in the title role and Alan Miller as the curate really managed to transcend their parts. They were the charlatan and the bumbler,, two types always showered with the gems of Gilbert's word-patterns, and they carried to the audience the spriteliness that is necessary for a true appreciation of the operetta. Mary Bartlett as the heroine and Yolanda Lyons as her mother sang forcefully, but David Shapiro, the "hero," was unfortunately rendered almost inaudible every time the orchestra climbed above mezzoforte, wihch it did often...
...stifle my conscience, turn from God, apostatize from the church and give lip service to the state, what kind of a clever charlatan have I become? ... A Catholic who does not dare to give his life for God will be liable to betray his country. The Communists do not fear harsh words and death. Why should...
...some sane art in your pages? Why must we always look at psychopathic doodles of the queer, the charlatan, the tongue-in-cheek jests of artists who can draw or paint and the childish "primitives" of those who cannot...