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...this scheme, though, the apparent mastermind was an outsider: Armand Moore, 33, a burly ex-con from Detroit who called himself "the Chairman." Moore was paroled from Minnesota's Sandstone federal prison in 1986 after serving four years of an eleven-year term for fraud. In 1982 he created a Chicago "bank," actually a telephone answering service, and issued himself letters of personal credit. So convincing were these documents that ten air- charter companies leased planes to Moore, who used them to take off on cross- country shopping sprees. By the time he was caught, he owed...
Capote's father, Clarke relates, was a charming con man named Arch Persons, a bad-check artist who worked, when he worked, as a promoter for a carnival performer called the Great Pasha, whose specialty was being buried alive. His mother was a small-town Alabama beauty named Lillie Mae Faulk, who eventually chucked the shiftless Arch, headed for New York City and changed her name to Nina because it sounded more sophisticated. Little Truman was parked for much of his childhood in a Southern-gothic household of eccentric cousins in Monroeville, Ala. But Clarke stresses that his most agonizing...
...Massachusetts misstep is certain to be magnified by the G.O.P. Already, Bush Spokesman Peter Teeley dubs the Duke's record "one of the greatest con jobs in American politics." But despite overheated G.O.P. rhetoric, Dukakis' budget woes are not insoluble and the state remains prosperous. The Governor's major political miscue was to press for an overly aggressive expansion of state programs, in part so that he could brag about them on the campaign trail. Now he will be hard pressed to pay for them. It is all rather embarrassing for Dukakis -- until one remembers the size of the Reagan...
...cannot be answered. The shrewdness in her performance is clear, but so, alas, is her thinking process: she lacks ease and naturalness. Mantegna, by contrast, superbly manages his character's clashing mental states. Silver is captivating, especially in a second-act tantrum that is equal parts rage, hurt, con-artist scam and genuine grief at a betrayal...
...ROSSINI TENOR (Arabesque). Up bel canto hill and down rodomontade dale, con brio, with the rising young opera star Rockwell Blake...