Word: conned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entry." Forces leaving the area will be bombarded with a series of public-health messages emphasizing safe sex and responsible drinking habits. In Oceanside, Calif., near the Camp Pendleton Marine base, authorities will advise returning grunts about how they can avoid street scams. "We expect that every hooker and con artist who can get here will prey on these guys," says a spokesman, "because they've got all this money saved...
...Grifters is the gem -- small, cold, bright, brilliantly crafted. The movie traces the slug tracks of three con artists who play their deadliest tricks on one another. Roy Dillon (John Cusack) works the "short con," using loaded dice and legerdemain to skin cashiers and sailors. Roy's girlfriend Myra (Annette Bening) is cheaper, perkier, ever ready to try the "long con" -- the elaborate scheme that takes suckers for big stakes. Roy's mother Lilly (Anjelica Huston) is the con woman supreme. Abused and abusing since girlhood, she can stand up to her sadistic boss or pull off a motel-room...
...American flag lapel pins next to their peace pins. Said Greg Wald, owner of the All Nations Flag Company in Kansas City: "The first week of the war was like Memorial Day and the Fourth of July combined. It hit like an earthquake." Consumer-watchdog groups, though, warned of con men already hatching heartless schemes. Swindlers in Hauppauge, N.Y., pretending to be cemetery employees, were urging veterans last week to buy graveyard plots before fresh war casualties filled up the best spots...
...GRIFTERS. Cold and merciless as an assassin's blade, this adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1963 novel traces the slug tracks of three con artists who play their deadliest tricks on one another. Anjelica Huston and Annette Bening make two splendid carnivores; John Cusack, as the man trying to tame them, naturally gets devoured...
...months for possession of cocaine, the drug that is tearing his city apart) and on three Northwest Airlines pilots who, while drunk one morning last spring, flew a Boeing 727 with 91 passengers aboard from Fargo, N. Dak., to Minneapolis. Mayor Barry, still running the addict's street con, portrayed himself as the victim of racial prejudice and, worse, as a man who has recovered from his problem and mended his ways...