Word: faking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read the latest flame. One recent public notice contained a rosy farewell message from the head of C.M.U.'s Computer Science Department, who explained that he was leaving the university for a job at a private computer company started by a former faculty member. The farewell address was fake; but because C.M.U.'s electronic bulletin board can be read by other universities on the same network, the perplexed department head began receiving queries from colleagues as far away as Europe...
...beautifully tailored in the same material but cut to infant size. Spoto reports that Hitchcock Enjoyed the power that his position as director gave him to control and humble women. When a script required an actress to be dunked in water, as with Kim Novak's fake suicide in Vertigo, he would shoot the take over and over...
...most of those who postulated that the Hitler diaries are fake believe the motive would have been political. The most common theory, voiced by Jäckel and Historian Werner Maser: the diaries may have been produced in an alleged Nazi memorabilia "forgery factory" in Potsdam, East Germany, for cash and for advancement of Soviet political aims. The two major "revelations" in the first installment of the diaries published by Stern are that Hitler approved Deputy Chancellor Hess's 1941 trip to Britain to propose a treaty and that he let the British escape at Dunkirk in hopes...
...Business School, the future leaders of the business world are playing computer games. It's not Pac-Man, but instead students sell "shires," a mythical cross between a shirt and a tire, in a computer-simulated setting. Participants try to make as much fake money as possible, but the overall object is to learn business strategies and techniques...
...disorders take many forms, including hysteria, malingering, chronic pain and hypochondriasis. The hypochondriac is preoccupied with the fear of having a serious disease. Some doctors refer to the treatment of hypochondriacs, or "crocks," as "psychoceramic medicine" and the recitation of their histories as "organ recitals." Other somatizers sometimes deliberately fake illness, going so far, for example, as to rub a thermometer on a bedsheet to produce a fever, lacerate the skin to create lesions, or overuse laxatives to disrupt the gastrointestinal tract. In the bizarre Munchausen syndrome, which, according to one estimate, affects 4,000 U.S. patients, ailments are feigned...