Word: fake
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looks like a page from HOUSE & HOME, when the back-country heroine has an elocution-school accent, when the cowpunching hero has clean, executive hands? Mankind needs new and vital legends, and Director Huston should not be blamed for trying to make one. Only for trying to fake...
...watercolor called Hawk, then furiously snatched it from the wall and smashed the glass against a radiator. The gallery attendant ran out of her office just in time to see him tear the painting out of the shattered frame and deliberately rip it in two. "An absolutely shocking, disgusting fake," snapped the destroyer: Painter Morris Graves...
...alleged Graves was a recent acquisition (price: $200), had been lent to the gallery as part of a show of his collection. Before stalking out of the gallery and heading back to Ireland (where he now lives), Graves scribbled a note to Selig: "I'm outraged that these fake 'Graves' paintings are getting into good collections such as yours and onto the New York market. I destroyed this...
...Taylor then gone to his death on the DC-7B on Spears's ticket? The FBI began to patch together the pieces to decide whether Spears 1) sent Al Taylor on the DC-7B with a bomb hidden in his luggage to blow up the plane, thereby to fake evidence of Spears's death, collect a $100,000 insurance policy payable to his wife Frances Spears, 36, and escape the abortion charges in Los Angeles; or whether Spears 2) let Al Taylor ride the DC-7B on Spears's ticket and then, hearing of the crash, coolly...
...near-unanimous All-America. With the Warriors, Rodgers regularly holds lonely practice sessions to perfect his passing techniques. "I'll put a chair in a certain place," he says, "and pretend it's Bill Russell of the Celtics, and that I'll have to fake him a little to get the ball to Wilt. I dribble at the chair like it's Russell. I can practically see him faked out, and I aim high for Wilt...