Word: faked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...living in Port' Ercole, Italy, in 1964 and 1965. It was an area settled by the ancient Etruscans, and was honeycombed with tombs. "Every farmer you met had an ancient pot or two in his house," Hughes recalls, "except the ones who were off in Tuscania making fakes. Tomb-robbing was the local cottage industry." Hughes made his contribution to the local economy. Buying Etruscan pots from farmers and amateur dealers at top prices of from $15 to $20 each, he eventually accumulated some 40 pieces, at least half of them fake. "My eye was very naive," he confesses...
...pass from his boss at the Park Service that said "Total Access to All Areas" and hung it around his neck and set off toward immortality of sorts. He slipped through the crowd filing up the Inaugural stands, found his way to his old spot behind one of the fake pillars. Everything went fine until it was time for Nixon to take the oath. Suddenly, a Secret Service agent said Stoughton couldn't stand there. Get out. Stoughton, for a second, was panicky. The oath of office was about to be administered. Where...
Marlborough, by contrast, got Modigliani's Red Head for $50,000-with the astounding guarantee that if it proved to be a fake (both Rousseau and Geldzahler doubted its authenticity) the Met should give $60,000 back to Marlborough. Presumably the extra $10,000 was for air fare, since Red Head promptly went to Tokyo, where an anonymous Japanese bought it for between...
...Hasty Pudding Club had drummed up her standing room only audience with publicity that included a fake Crimson extra distributed Monday night and Tuesday morning...
...Hasty Pudding Club advertised yesterday's events, which included a parade from the Business school, in a fake Crimson extra distributed Monday night and Tuesday morning. The annual award, begun 23 years ago, is a publicity stunt for the theatrical club's annual musical production...