Word: conned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most memorable character: Rockefeller's father, William Avery Rockefeller, a backwoods mountebank and snake-oil pitchman whose history John D. tried to suppress. "Big Bill" Rockefeller, crack shot and con artist, claimed to be a medical doctor and, in the gullible towns of upstate New York and farther west, promised to cure any cancer for $25. Eventually, "Doc" Rockefeller (who made a habit of impregnating the servant girl at home) became a bigamist and started a separate family as "Doctor Levingston"--the name that appears on his tombstone. All his life, Big Bill loved money, and when...
Stressing cooperation between the sexes rather than con- flict, Wilson's style was tagged by The BostonGlobe as "postfeminist...
Glass wasn't just good at getting into those rooms; he was good at inventing them. He appears to be something rare in journalism: a genuine con man who made up not just quotations but people, corporations, legislation--even a "National Memorabilia Convention" ("held last weekend in Rockville, Md."), where vendors hawked such Lewinsky-related items as an inflatable Monica doll that recited Leaves of Grass...
...alumnae say they are not con- vinced...
ARMAGEDDON (July 1). The last two big films to open on the July 4th weekend, Independence Day and Men in Black, earned a combined $1.375 billion worldwide. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer's macho movies (The Rock, Con Air) do testosterrific at the wickets. So this Dirty Dozen in outer space will get a rousing send-off. If there's a question, it's about instant deja vu. Armageddon will be the second film this year to star Bruce Willis, to deal with an astral collision--and to destroy the Chrysler building...