Word: faking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will to live he had once (sob!) magically restored after she had been scarred in a fire-aided, of course, by the deductive wizardry of his "paraplegic genius" sidekick. Another episode began with Bixby in love with a sweet young thing who turned out to be masquerading under a fake identity with the help of the Government because she once fingered a mobster. Actor Bixby is surely worthy of better things than a soulful love scene with lines like, "Two people . . . [pause] . . . become as one [pause] . . . forever," mumbled with mystical intensity as he symbolically fiddles with an entwined...
...head coach, he led Pennsylvania's little-known Washington and Jefferson College into the 1922 Rose Bowl, where the heavily favored University of California barely managed to hold the Easterners to a scoreless tie. Widely credited with developing the man-to-man defense, the triple and fake reverse, Neale went on to handle the Yale backfield under Head Coach "Ducky" Pond until 1941, when he took charge of the hapless Philadelphia Eagles. Neale rebuilt the team from football's perennial doormats into two-time National Football League champions (1948-49) and in 1967 was elected to football...
...title has the sound of fake poetry, but the movie beneath it has the solid ring of truth. The good wishes of summer may be summarized as a desire to feel, and express more intensely, love in its several varieties. The bad dreams of winter are the products of life's thoughtless intrusions on Rita Waiden (Joanne Woodward...
...English burglar recently broke into a games manufacturing company and stole a fortune-in fake Monopoly money. The crook's confusion is not as funny as it sounds. So serious is Britain's continuing inflation that the current gibe by critics is that Monopoly pounds may soon be worth as much as the real thing...
...reader feels a certain sympathy for these lofty wretches. Since they are not very likable or high-minded or deserving, but simply very human, this says a good deal for Ward Just's skill. There is not the slightest hint that the author has enrolled real people under fake names and with different hair colors. A laudable break with Washington literary tradition...