Word: counterfeiter
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...novel are stripped of their fantasies only to wither away. Clock Without Hands is thus a kind of Member of the Funeral. Death is admittedly the theme Novelist McCullers chose for her novel, but its dark and powerful presence is not felt. Instead, there is only death's counterfeit, the absence of life...
...Vegas and Manhattan's Latin Quarter, where they played last week. The secret is conspiracy. The Latin Quarter pretends that it is wild and wicked. The vacationing dentists who jam its tables pretend that they are hugely entertained when the comedian kicks the M.C. Their wives counterfeit sophisticated smiles when bare-breasted show girls jiggle onstage. And when the Crosby brothers admit that, boy, we really hacked up that last song, everyone cheerfully conspires to pretend that they are kidding...
March then pressured Franco's courts to declare Barcelona Traction bankrupt. Since Barcelona Traction held all of the Catalonian utilities common stock in Canada, the courts ordered "duplicate" shares printed in Spain, auctioned off the counterfeit shares to the highest bidder-who was, of course, Juan March. Control of the multimillion-dollar empire thus passed to March for only $900,000. Sofina, left with a paper corporation, fought the case through the courts, spent more than $3,000,000 on legal fees. Even if Sofina wins a whopping settlement (prospect: $13 million to $16 million) March has a bargain...
Weaver's King has a sombre majesty of such impressiveness that when Douglas says "I fear thou art another counterfeit;/And yet, in faith, thou bearest thee like a king," we nod in inward and compelled assent. His face bears the signs of his shaken age, "wan with care," and there is a poignancy to his recurring mention of his desire to embark on a Crusade that becomes near unbearable when the dying King asks to be carried to the Jerusalem Chamber: It hath been prophesied to me many years I should not die but in Jerusalem, Which vainly...
...Moscow churches. One of them would dress in rags and rattle a tin cup at the church door while the other whipped out of the car's luggage compartment an assortment of crucifixes, icons, tracts and lamps and did a brisk business at a fat profit until the counterfeit beggar tipped him off that the cops were coming. One day the agents of the Department for Fighting Theft and Speculation seized...