Word: counterfeited
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...Serpent's Tail. Admittedly, most La Fontaine precepts are as sound as Ben Franklin's-e.g., "Better think of the outcome before you begin," "A counterfeit's sure to be exposed to light"-although they are dressed in brocade rather than homespun. The fables he borrowed from Aesop in La Fontaine's hands became tart and graceful satires on society, with neat plots and sharp blackout punch lines...
...official director of the sanitarium, McIver runs Castle House on a progressive principle, i.e., that patients must have responsibility if they are to show any. He finds it harder to apply this principle in his private life. At 39, his wife Karen is as fresh, and as false, as counterfeit money. A blonde china-doll type, she nurses a badly nicked ego because McIver has been sleeping in a separate room for eight months. His two children are bright as toothpaste ads, but busy Dr. McIver barely knows them...
...while Gina bares some exciting intentions to her rival's husband. The four villains watch this game of amatory cat's cradle with alarm, and soon read into it a counterplot to deactivate the uranium deal. On the way to Africa, they decide to cash in the counterfeit count because he has sniffed out their game; but the ship opportunely starts to sink, the victim disappears overboard, and the seven survivors reach shore only to be seized as spies by the Arabs. In the end, the fourflushing foursome are clapped in the clink because Jennifer, for once...
...This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you . . ."). Hotelman Conrad Hilton, their host, a Roman Catholic, told them: "It took a war and the frightening evil of Communism to show the world that this whole business of prayer is not a sissy, a counterfeit thing . . . Rather it is a part of man's personality, without which he limps...
...those with counterfeit singing voices, Dorothy Tutin is the lone disappointment. Playing an ingenue her exaggerated facial contortions and adolescent soliloquies lack the subtlety that punctuates the other performances...