Word: fake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against Turkey, he was bounced from the army for joining a plot to restore the monarchy under George II, Constantine's son. But in 1935 he took a leading part in a coup d'état which got George II back his crown by means of a fake plebiscite. Said Papagos: "The only unethical act of my career." Years later he had to lecture one of George II's successors on the limitations of the royal prerogative: "Sir," complained haughty young Frederika, wife of King Paul, "you forget who the Queen is." Replied Papagos softly, bowing...
...votes. The Communists got almost none except in their stronghold of Kampot, shared with other minor parties only some 12%. Sangkum candidates won all 91 seats in the new Assembly, a victory of almost embarrassing proportions for Prince Sihanouk. Apologizing for success, he declared: "If I wanted to fake the elections, I would never have the effrontery to scrounge all the seats...
...were few, and Florentines were amused at the procedure. Scouts spotted an empty villa. In great secrecy, La Pira signed the requisition or der the night before. Next morning early, the decree was delivered to the owner. An hour later, before the hapless owner had time to move in fake tenants, a task force arrived at the villa comprising a requisition functionary, a blacksmith (in case the owner had barred the doors), two city cops on motorcycles ("policemen on motorcycles are always more impressive,'' (explained La Pira), and sometimes La Pira himself. In a matter of minutes...
...Stealing. Felix Krull is the son of a Rhinelander who manufactured unusually bad champagne and committed suicide because nobody would buy it. Felix is a precocious boy. At an early age he has learned to fake fits and migraine symptoms-he can even make his fingernails turn blue-in order to stay home from school. Soon he is able to forge signatures with the technical virtuosity of a three-time loser. He steals, too, but theft is an esthetic experience to him. And when it comes to sex (as it does soon, with the housemaid), he does not mind admitting...
...Titian's; a Pieta, "tenably" the work of Titian's little-known brother, Francesco Vecellio. In Rome, one art authority snorted: "The Giorgione show is a scandal. It's costing everyone connected with it face." A more serious problem facing an art market already overloaded with fake Giorgiones was pointed out by Turin University's Anna Maria Brizio: "Unfortunately, there is in the show more than one picture which fails to meet the indispensable minimum level of artistic quality . . . but which will retain always the title of nobility from having been part of the Giorgione show...