Word: dupee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sound Like I'm Here But I'm Really Not" Message: The speaker says things like, "Hello?", "Are you there?" and "Is this an obscene phone call?" as though he or she has answered the phone. Some unfortunate callers fall for the dupe; they respond to the bogus speaker with, "Can you hear me?" or "I'll try again, wait!" Ironically, the speaker and roommates are usually in the room, laughing their respective heads off, when the machine answers...
...glass world, she may have a case. Rick Snyder's Jack Ruby is a guileless goof, jitterbugging with nervous / vacuity, forever asking the strippers at his nightclub if he is effeminate. A Mob intermediary tells him he will be a hero if he kills Oswald. He is, instead, another dupe. Malkovich rightly considers this an unfinished work. It is full of intriguing moments, but it is more confusing than revelatory...
...dupe ourselves into believing that the life of a college student is something to complain about, something real. These luxurious facilities we enjoy--our endless libraries, common-room fireplaces, special dinners in the dining halls--perpetuates the myth that academia leads to tangible goals, that it is somehow worthy in and of itself. We get huge rewards for our stress, thereby teaching us that these stresses are real, even when they are so disconnected from reality...
...hold of a 1989 front-page article in the Arkansas Gazette that discussed Clinton's Moscow trip. He then began railing against Clinton in late-night House speeches, often delivered to an empty chamber, but nonetheless carried on C-SPAN. Besides suggesting that Clinton may have been a dupe of the KGB, Dornan heatedly attacked the Democrat's draft record and antiwar views...
...were his dupes. To be charitable, perhaps he was his own dupe...