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When asked if he thinks Kerry will win the election, Prouty answers, “Yes, I do. I think in people’s guts, when you get rid of all the flim-flam, it’s time to have somebody you would trust and respect as president, not somebody you would like to have a beer with in a tavern...

Author: By Sarah L. Solorzano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reaching Out To His Bass | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

...rope-a-dope again - the brief illusion of candor, the dignified drawing of the curtain, the ambient vapor of self-pity, the appeal to higher, more important issues at play, then long expanses of intricate policy wonkery punctuated by outbursts of humanitarian rhetoric....If we allowed you to flim-flam us into this contract, you'd pull the same stunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Book Publishers Should Have Said to Bill Clinton | 8/9/2001 | See Source »

...thing about Harlem, and the President too, is that you don't know where you are from day to day, but you do know you are in a place that is exciting, tragic, alternately deadly and life affirming, beautiful, melancholy, delicious, religious, full of equal doses of history and flim-flam, and above all, enduring. Langston Hughes, a Harlem Renaissance writer, created a character for his columns called Jesse B. Semple, or Simple, who boasted: "I've been insulted, eliminated, locked in, locked out, and left holding the bag. But I am still here." Sound familiar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Comes To Harlem | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...somewhat of a flim-flam," said HUPD spokesperson Peggy A. McNamara...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Police Hunt for Homeless Intruder | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

Once at a restaurant, I thought I'd outsmart the staff and request no ice. The waitress asked me if I wanted her just to bring out the bottle. I leaped at the chance, and was flim-flammed again. The "bottle" was a Lilliputian eight ounces...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Why Life Is a Scam | 4/6/1999 | See Source »

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