Word: conned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their charges of a wide-ranging government conspiracy. Absolutely none. What they serve up instead is a murky brew of truths, quarter-truths and outright lies assembled by the latest in a long string of Ray defense lawyers: one William Pepper, who is either a credulous buffoon or a con artist. To promote himself and his book on the alleged conspiracy, Pepper has exploited the King family's understandable desire to learn the full truth. Pepper's de facto accomplice is Phillip Jones, an old friend of Dexter King's, the martyred leader's son who heads the King Center...
...open-and-shut case. But your crusade is all the chattering classes have left. Better that you be the first I.C. to prosecute a cover-up of a sin, not a crime, than that we return to covering IMF funding and NATO expansion. As you put it, Vaya con Dios...
With such an open exchange, the two rooms do consciously reserve some privacy. While maybe there's no striptease--just good wholesome hijinks--Terence con-cedes that "there is definitely some purposeful nudity...
...works so hard, and he cites Noel Coward: "Work is more fun than fun." Or, as con artiste Joe Mantegna says in House of Games, "What's more fun than human nature?" Like all those purring predators in The Spanish Prisoner, David Mamet devotes much of his working life to nothing more or less complicated than playing artful games...
...think now. But there were children in Outer Maroo who had never seen rain." Into this withered rangeland came a drifter who dressed in white and called himself Oyster, a random alias he had adopted while working with an aquaculture firm. In his new manifestation he was a religious con man, a charismatic spellbinder who had learned the trick of looking for long seconds into a listener's eyes while reciting apocalyptic prophecy in tones of sexual love. And he had opals, three very large specimens to which, he said, faith had led him (though it appears later that...