Word: charlatanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...provide 10% of the total college enrollment. True, the many black colleges are still inferior to many white ones, and about half of black college students attend traditionally black institutions. But Watson concedes: "The fortunes of black Americans seeking higher education have improved dramatically. Only a fool or a charlatan would deny that there has been progress...
...Brad Dourif (the stuttering inmate in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), the young hero is an angry, obsessed loner with penetrating eyes and a fierce bark. When he tries and fails to start his new church, he meets a large array of even greater crackpots: a charlatan street preacher who fakes blindness (Harry Dean Stanton), a zookeeper (Daniel Shor) in search of an animalistic deity, an evangelical merchandising expert (Ned Beatty) and some sex-starved belles (Amy Wright, Mary Nell Santacroce). Huston has great affection for these people, even if Hazel does not: the misfits are celebrated...