Word: cons
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...this, his one "race" film, Robeson plays both the venal "Reverend" Isaiah T. Jenkins - an ex-con who wows the faithful with his sermons and woos them with a brutal hand - and Isaiah's saintly brother Sylvester. Of course it's Isaiah who gets the screen time, because Robeson could seize the screen by pouring more of his roguish majesty into the part. Isaiah wows the church ladies with his orations, then sullies their virgin daughters and pockets his victims' life savings (hidden in a Bible!). The actor's playing here is as broad as Broadway, but Micheaux wasn...
...plunged Baker and his institution into a long, ugly drama of accusations and recriminations so far-reaching that they ended up sullying the ideals of all of American alternative spirituality. By narrative's end, Baker is in many ways scarcely distinguishable from the long, sad list of other modern con men-cum-spiritual masters who started out well-intentioned but became damagingly seduced by the prestige and power that their legitimate abilities had earned for them...
...Nicole J. McDermott ’02 has been spending all her money on marijuana, Vicodin and Frito-Lay’s “salsa con queso.” Her parents, noticing that she’s been making increasingly large withdrawals from their bank account each month, finally questioned her this week: “What in the world have you been spending all this money on? Alcohol?” Thinking quickly, McDermott confirmed their worst suspicions, which were “way less sketchy than the painkiller and cheese-dip reality...
There was a bit of Billy in all these characters. A con man by nature and force of circumstance, he was also a quick study. Arriving in Hollywood in 1934 with a resume of scriptwork in Germany and France but knowing hardly a word of English, he was writing screenplays at Fox within the year...
...convicted child molester, ex-con and former priest, Father X, who asks that his name not be revealed, was arrested in the 1990s and charged with molesting children over a seven-year period. During his 30-year career, he was a sought-after counselor and confidant, and for a number of years he worked closely with young people in his California diocese. At the time of his arrest, prosecutors charged him with 17 counts of child sexual abuse. Most of those counts were dropped because the statute of limitations had run out, but Father X, who claims he had undergone...