Word: faked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such beautiful work that when he came to trial, all hands agreed that even in France, where 80% of the world's fake currency is produced, Bojarsky deserved the title "the Leonardo da Vinci of Forgers." Almost regretfully, police packed him off to La Prison Centrale in Melun last week to begin serving a 20-year term. But, sighed Emile Benamou, director of France's National Center for the Repression of Forgers, and the man who spent 13 years tracking down Bojarsky, "His qualities as an artist are marvelous. Had it been dollars that he was making...
...bold geometries: big, wide rectangles, squares, octagons and ovals, in dazzling op designs. Frames come in all black, all white, one eye black and the other white, black and white stripes, checks, or combinations of both. Just for fun, some glasses come armed with roll-up awnings and huge fake eyelashes; others sport spectacular papier-mâché designs glued on to the frames; still others have movable lenses that lift up into a coy wink. In Riviera's new one-way mirror models, the lenses also are decorated; the wearer looks out through a patterned blur...
...pair" (falsely claiming an accomplice has talked); he also recommends "pretense of physical evidence," such as a faked lie-detector test or fake lab reports that play on the gullible suspect's "mystical notions of the power of scientific crime detection." Above all, says O'Hara, the interrogator "must dominate his subject and overwhelm him with his inexorable will to obtain the truth...
...this odd lot, Ghost makes no claims about its originality. The storyline, believe it or not, involves a boy and a girl who go to a haunted house in order to hear the reading of a will (Karloff's). Rathbone tries to scare them off with all kinds of fake monsters who emerge from all kinds of fake walls. Then the beach angle is introduced as a bunch of leftovers from Muscle Beach Party set up camp around the swimming pool, and a motorcycle gang finds its way into the haunted corridors...
Would it? One clue to where the power lay came when General Suharto took to radio and television to declare that "the people are fed up with fake leaders" and to plead for patience in the struggle for a new political and economic order. The Cabinet shakeup, Suharto said, was only the first in a series of steps "which will lead to our ultimate victory." The general's emphasis was on doing things gradually, and his plea was primarily directed toward Djakarta's restive students, who would have liked to see a bigger shake...