Word: counterfeited
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...list of 500 prominent names apparently targeted for kidnaping or assassination, including Playwright John Osborne, his actress wife Jill Bennett and Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. In Paris, police discovered an apartment with a nearly complete ammunition dump of dynamite, submachine guns and homemade bombs, along with equipment to make counterfeit documents. There was also another list of potential murder or kidnap victims, including French politicians, journalists, businessmen and intellectuals, as well as a list of terrorist attacks that Carlos had already carried...
...reverence, in dialogue, and with some of that delight, that "excellency of childhood" (Reinhold Niebuhr) without which all the wellsprings of human endeavor run dry. They felt that, if permanently cast as "professionals" and "clients," as managers and managed, they and the poor were but two sides of a counterfeit social coin, clasped together in necrophilic embrace, each with its own hurts derived from its objectification of the other...
...hear him tell it, Gary Deeb's job is to sit in front of a television set for up to six hours a day and be insulted. "Counterfeit, stylized brutality that passes for entertainment," he says of the current TV season, adding that the networks' offerings seem to be "devoid of innovation, creativity or diversification," freighted with "drivel," "sanitized doggerel" and "phony, rotten garbage...
...Anton Antonovich Skuoznik Dmukhanovsky, is almost larger than his constituency-has received a letter indicating that the equivalent of an IRS investigator has been dispatched from the capital to examine the town's fiscal books. Since the mayor (George S. Irving) and his cronies are as crooked as counterfeit rubles, they are understandably distressed...
Some of the playgoers who attend Give 'Em Hell Harry! will leave the theater with the misconception that they have been moved and gripped by a matchless counterfeit of reality. That is not the way theater works. On the stage, the inner eye transcends the camera...