Word: faking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same one over again. After he had performed a trick three times, Ali showed how it worked. He is not supposed to do this-very much against the magicians' code. He has been dropped from the Magic Castle, the official magicians' club. Ali pulled off a fake thumb. He explained: "It is a sin in my religion to deceive people." He has almost as much fun explaining the tricks as he has doing them...
...merchandise in Sears aisles and in the catalogs constitutes a breathtaking array of how Americans are spending their money in the waning years of the 20th century. In a mixture of utility and Middle American chic, there are gas barbecues and girdles, personal computers and auto-ignition analyzers, draperies, fake-fur coats, electric generators, two-stage oxyacetylene welding outfits, lingerie, swimsuits, exercise equipment, Franklin stoves, blood-pressure monitors, telephones, 718-piece mechanics' tool sets, portable drills and socket wrenches. Sears sells queen and worker bees, dairy and livestock equipment, horse blankets and saddles and, for $1,200, a pair...
...existing house in greater Los Angeles was $114,200-in the nation, it was $71,800. But who can find a "median" home? The other day, on a quiet street in Santa Monica, a FOR SALE sign went up in front of a three-bedroom, one-bath, fake stucco 1940s house on a lot the size of a gas-station road map. Asking price: $269,000. A plump woman walking by wearing a muumuu said, "It may sound high, but you pay to be close to the beach. The air is better." Down at the beach in Santa Monica...
...prove that Penney was willing to make the final payment, police asked Mrs. Penney to pose as her own corpse in a fake coroner's photograph. Technicians created a deathly pallor with makeup. Said one officer: "She looked just like a corpse." Indeed, Penney tearfully identified his wife when police showed him the photo of the "deceased." Within hours, investigators say, he agreed to make the final payment. He was arrested when he arrived at the sheriffs office to take custody of his two children, who had been living with his wife...
Alas, sometimes the headlines are the wrong kind. Random House recently shredded copies of a biography of Barbara Hutton to escape a costly libel suit. Howard Hughes' fake autobiography earlier proved that hot book ideas can be too good to be true...