Word: conning
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Cantabrigians of all shapes, sizes and genetic make-ups came to see the pro-con booths on recombinant DNA research Saturday at the Mayor's Marketplace in Kendall Square...
...chain-smoking con girl in Paper Moon, a hard-throwing Little League pitcher in The Bad News Bears. For her next number, Tatum O'Neal, all of 12, will dance back to the screen as a budding hoofer in Nickelodeon, Director Peter Bogdanovich's new film about 1920s Hollywood. Not to be outdone by Co-Star Jane Hitchcock, who once studied with Choreographer George Balanchine of the New York City Ballet, Tatum took a six-week crash course in tap dancing before stepping into her new role. Sums up Tatum: "I guess it's much more practical...
...entourage of relatives, managers, flacks (Harvey Keitel, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy) who are devoted about equally to managing his affairs profitably and to seeing that his egocentric whims do not cut too deeply into those profits. As usual in Altman's films, the minor characters are hilariously venal, conning themselves relentlessly, the better to con the public. The film's best running gag has Geraldine Chaplin as sharpshooting Annie Oakley, sniping closer, ever closer to Frank Butler, her husband, who must hold her targets steady while fighting against growing fear as she keeps testing the limits...
Finally, the two con artists called on Sabena airline and picked up a fifth bundle of multinational swag. Then they disappeared. Their rented Granada was discovered by police three days later in the parking lot of Heathrow's Terminal No. 3, all-flights boarding point for destinations outside Europe. At week's end it was still unknown whether the men had actually left the country...
...went to Tijuana. I had some money I had borrowed, which I would pay back when I got a job in California. In Tijuana, the coyotes [con men] approached me. They knew who was trying to cross the border and could see right through your pocket and tell how much money you had. They offered to get me to Chicago, but I had heard that these people can rob you as quick as a mosquito can bite you, so I said no. One night, a campesino from Zacatecas climbed under the fence with me, and we ran and walked...