Word: flim-flams
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...nothing more than an income-maintenance program, for the simple reason that when workers graduate from training programs, there are still no jobs for them. In a couple of months, 10 million people are going to be unemployed. To talk of job training is ridiculous. It's a flim-flam." Charles Schultze, who was chairman of President Carter's Council of Economic Advisers, argues that job programs "wouldn't make much of a dent" in recession. One traditional problem is that Congress usually votes for such programs in the middle of a recession, but by the time...
...theme runs deep, wide and muddy through the heart of American literature. Melville navigated the subject on the river boat Fidele, which he filled with assorted rascals for his novel The Confidence Man. It was no coincidence that in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn the shuck and the flim-flam cut across racial and class lines, from Nigger Jim's magical hair ball to the King and the Duke's pretentious ripoffs...
...charges by festooning the locker room with little homilies: THERE IS ONLY ONE YARDSTICK IN OUR SPORT AND THAT IS WINNING-SECOND PLACE IS LIKE KISSING YOUR SISTER. While a few players do not wholly buy his pitch, most agree with Center Len Elmore: "Lefty's the flim-flam man. It's a confidence game with him, but you buy it because he's honest about it." Now 41, Driesell is too busy chasing the national championship and overseeing sundry enterprises-the Lefty Driesell Insurance Agency, the Lefty Driesell steakhouse, the Lefty Driesell summer basketball camp...
...fellow actors often express admiration for Scott because he has the courage to risk professional failures. His characterization of Mordecai Jones, the aging but still canny Flim-Flam Man, was too strongly derivative of W.C. Fields, and his performance as Antony in Antony and Cleopatra was a self-proclaimed disaster. "I should have played Cleopatra," he says; Antony is one of the few roles beyond his ambition. "The great danger with most actors," he says, "is that the more successful they become, the less risk they will take with their careers. They forget why they became actors in the first...
...against AID personnel that indirectly touched several longtime associates of Vice President Hubert Humphrey's. Herbert J. Waters, 55, director of AID'S "war on hunger," resigned recently at Gaud's direct request, after three men under Waters' jurisdiction were implicated in a $250,000 flim-flam with a Belgian firm that AID paid for work never done. Waters managed Humphrey's senatorial campaigns in 1954 and 1960, was the Minnesota Senator's administrative assistant until he was appointed to the $27,000-a-year...