Word: con-artists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...link in the vast conspiracy that held her prisoner in a cage of lies inside this country's system of justice. Some call it schizoid;, she just calls it getting by, since her career as a singularly dedicated lawyer was effectively ended by her conviction for colluding with a con-artist client to subvert her profession and violate the law. She spent years in prison after refusing to testify against this con man and only began to speak of the gross injustice Because this peculiar, intractable lawyer is the heroine of Janet Malcolm's new journalistic essay, The Crime...
...LATEST RIPOFF This con-artist ploy gives new meaning to the phrase "Shop till you drop." A letter in this month's Journal of Accident and Emergency Medicine reports on two British women who feigned collapse at cashier's counters every few days. When they were put into ambulances, bystanders also packed in their goods. Once at the hospital, "recovery is rapid." Result: free, if felonious, shopping...
...broadway classic "The Music Man," a slick con-artist arrives in the small midwestern town of River City and proceeds to convince the populace that they are facing an impending explosion of juvenile delinquency. The cause--a new pool hall that's just opened. The con-man tells the townspeople that the only way to save their children is to enroll them in a wholesome activity--a marching band--and then sells them expensive uniforms and instruments...
Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox), ghostbuster con-artist extraordinaire, has some kooky spirit friends and some naughty spirit enemies, most notably the Soul Collector himself. Also, there's lots of special effects--people passing through walls, ectoplasm accidents, anatomically unstable ghosts. People are dying, and Bannister, who is the only one who can see the ghosts and those marked for death, must find out why, with the help of special effects. He also has an Andie-MacDowell-lookalike friend, Lucy Lynskey (Trini Alvarado), and, enhanced by special effects, things quickly go awry. In addition, the possibility of the existence...
...Degrees" is the story of the wealthy and well-bred Kittredges, Ouisa (Stockard Channing) and Flan (Donald Sutherland), who are charmed by a young, Black con-artist (Will Smith) who bursts into their Upper East Side apartment claiming to be a friend of their college-age children and the son of Sidney Poitier. Paul (Smith) shatters the crystal palace of these New York sophisticates as he enters their lives unimpeded, proving how eager and willing they are to suspend disbelief in the hope of enlivening their rather cold and empty existences...