Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incomplete pass on a fake punt late in the fourth quarter also hurt Kirkland, and Brandford added two touchdowns to put the game out of reach. As usual, not everyone made the trip to New Haven, so there was a bit of an alibi for losing...
Gomez appeared to be in trouble about 15 feet in front of the Yale goal, but managed to dribble free, hit Thomas with a short pass, and then watched his team-mate fake out a couple of Elis before booming the ball into the right side of the net. That one came late in the third quarter, and, from then on, the Crimson merely toyed with Yale...
...FAKE!, by Clifford Irving. An exuberant account of the activities of one of the most successful and flamboyant art-forging rings in modern history...
...phantasm of pseudonyms: Von Houry / Herzog / Cassou / Hoffman / Raynal / Dory-Boutin. Actually he was a man named Elmyr de Hory, the artist responsible for counterfeiting the countless drawings, gouaches, watercolors and oils sold as Picassos, Matisses, Modiglianis, Braques, Derains, Monets, Légers, Dufys, Renoirs, Vlamincks and Van Dongens. Fake! is basically Elmyr de Hory's story as told to Novelist Clifford Irving (The Valley, The 38th Floor). It is an exuberant collage of skillful innuendo, succulent gossip, bitchery and elusive truths...
Born into a rich and landed Hungarian family, De Hory cruised Europe's capitals as a playboy artist during the '20s and '30s. He studied with Fernand Léger in Paris and brushed elbow patches with artists whose works he was to fake in years to come. Life was an amusement that ended abruptly with World War II. Totally apolitical, Elmyr was nevertheless shipped off to a Transylvanian concentration camp. "I was," he says with Magyar flair, "obviously too colorful a person for the safety of the state." He survived the Carpathian winter by painting...