Word: fake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other hand, authors Jacques Deval and Lorenzo Scmple, Jr., rely too much on gimmicks, sudden disclosures and fake tragedy to have their play classed as much more than a well-contrived nothing. They set up the double premise that one's destiny is inescapable, regardless of what steps are taken to change it, and that it is possible to see the future in a crystal-ball. Both points are in earnest, since Samarkand is not, strictly, a comedy. Having placed the scene in a circus tent, the authors call on some deft maneuvering by designer Ben Edwards to shift...
When the famous jaw of "Piltdown man" was proved by chemical tests to be a skillful fake (TIME. Nov. 30. 1953), some authorities were unwilling to condemn the late Charles Dawson, a respected antiquarian of southern England who claimed to have found it in 1911. The faking was too good, the experts said, for a man without technical skill...
...into four equal parts. He merges sections dominated by Parisian scenes, Johnson gazing at Taylor, wild parties, and family conflict over the baby. The confusing result has been to leave the impression that The Last Time I Saw Paris is not much more than pointless meandering between a fake left bank bistro and a cardboard Arc de Triomphe...
Four years later, using all their past chicanery, including forward passes, fake kicks and twisting punts, the Indians eventually did maneuver their upset. After ten consecutive losses to Harvard, they triumphed in the Stadium, 23 to 15. The game was played with ill feeling on both sides. Indian players Wauseka, Little Boy and Afraid-of-a-Bear were constantly on the verge of fist-fighting with the Crimson team. One Harvard player was, in fact, ejected from the game for slugging Wauseka...
Reclining Figure (by Harry Kurnitz) is a comedy about an eccentric and difficult art collector, and his daughter and his dealers and his staff. Offered a fake Renoir. Lucas Edgerton feels for the first time a genuine enthusiasm-rather than mere acquisitive excitement-for a picture; and one of Playwright Kurnitz's twists is that, seeing the boss so jubilantly bamboozled. Edgerton's own cowed, stoogelike expert lacks the courage to enlighten...