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Outside in the bright sun, the fair beckons in every direction. A middle-aged woman in a purple dress directs a dozen kids playing accordions in unison. A youth in a Fu Manchu mustache does card tricks to show how you can cheat with a shaved deck; he then offers shaved decks for sale...
Most Americans lie, cheat, steal and indulge in arrogance, yet are outraged when they find their elected officials doing the same thing...
...slick card game called " Watergate Scandal: a game of cover-up and deception for the whole family." The pious instructions read: "To win: nobody in the Watergate Scandal wins. There are just losers. Once the cards are dealt, however, the object of the game is to lie and cheat as much as possible...
...irony is that the social heights to which Crystal aspires operate on a code of ethics no more elevated than hers. These women lie, cheat on their cheating husbands, booze it up and assassinate each other's characters between brunch and bridge. Even while she gives tongue to their malice, Mrs. Luce clearly sees them as parasites who neither toil nor spin, except for their cunning webs of mischief. Like a social anthropologist, she follows these felines to their lairs-exercise parlors, hairdresser sessions, nightclub powder rooms. In an all-female play, these scenes cater to the U.S. male...
...growing cost to the Government of fraudulent or erroneous tax returns. Even with computerized checking, it is not too difficult for a taxpayer to get away with such dodges as claiming a couple of phantom dependents because the iRS's limited staff cannot run down every suspected cheat. One unofficial estimate puts the drain on revenue last year at $30 billion or more, about 15% of total collections. The problem has grown especially acute since 1969, when a change in tax laws so complicated the job of making out returns that many people gave up trying...