Word: counterfeiter
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...rash of bogus-bill passing has brought counterfeit ten and twenty dollar bills into the hands of merchants throughout the Greater Boston area...
...They search him for drugs. "This just ain't right," he complains over and over. His protests get louder, so Boston warns him: "Don't you grandstand on me." The youth is clean; they release him and he disappears, muttering. Either he has just managed a masterful counterfeit of innocence-or the police have made a new enemy...
...Didion might easily be confused with the new sisterhood of grievance collectors who blame men for everything. True, she thinks that men fail women. But she also feels that women are careless and callous, and that both sexes spend time and love and integrity as if they were unloading counterfeit money. Obsessed by waste and loss, she is a brooder who sifts her experience over and over again. The last lines of Play It As It Lays appear in a paraphrase throughout her work. They imply questioning-and possibly a survivor's grudging affirmation...
With a license from the Atomic Energy Commission, a radiologist named Harris Levine began some dangerous tinkering at his New Jersey home. Using the radioactive isotope americium 241, he devised a technique for spotting counterfeit money. The trick was to contaminate the engraver's ink with a trace of a radiation-free isotope, boron 10, activate it with americium and then pick out the bills that did not properly respond to detectors...
...What a blow for aesthetic egalitarianism! And what a cast of characters! Front men for the operation were a pair of homosexuals named Fernand Legros and Réal Lessard. Legros, a French-Egyptian given to wearing snug suits lined in red silk, jetted around the world with his counterfeit wares while maintaining a lavish Paris apartment and an all-male harem. Legros's partner, Lessard, was a young Canadian with a handsome, honest face. On the road he was a cool con man too, but back home he became the frightened victim of Legros's infidelities...