Word: conman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father. He is working off his sixth conviction, an 18-year sentence for burglary. Among his previous crimes: impersonation of an income tax collector. Abshire's is the most professional acting in the entire cast, for which he has a ready and plausible explanation: "I'm a conman...
...POLITICS of the action completely aside, the image is a most appealing one. There's a certain evil tinge to the performance that rings true. For you do learn to be a conman in the suburbs. And while every parent probably envisions their children of the fifties as little Beaver Cleavers. the much more calculating behavior of, say, an Eddie Haskell is probably a lot closer to the mark. To hell with all that Woodstock crap. As Rosen quotes Wilde, "Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know...