Word: conned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professional con artists have resurfaced in Harvard Square recently, prompting University police to issue a warning to students...
Police said the con artists, one man and one woman, tell their victims they have found a check for $4,500 on the street. They ask the victim to deposit the check in her bank account, and to split the cash with them if it clears...
...surprised that so many women supported a ban on handguns, especially when women today are so con- statement More students expressed interest in the sciences this year than last...
...BRITAIN BEEN OVERRUN BY RODENTS lately, or is it just British movies? In Truly, Madly, Deeply, Juliet Stevenson spent a lot of time in bed with large, scruffy rats. The vermin abound too in RIFF-RAFF, a rambling comedy from director Ken Loach. Stevie (Robert Carlyle), an ex-con finding construction work in London, falls in love with a pretty girleen (Emer McCourt) who wants to be a saloon singer. If this sounds like the plot of The Crying Game, don't blame scripter Bill Jesse; Riff-Raff was made a year before Neil Jordan's gender bender. Loach...
...narrator, then, is real -- whatever that might mean in a work of fiction -- but is the other Philip Roth some sort of con man or scam artist or lunatic exploiting a reputation not his own? Or might it be the other way around? Even to frame such a question is to play and plunge helplessly into Roth's game...