Word: flimflamming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flimflam Man. Irving held firm on the rest of his story: how he had gathered the manuscript in more than 100 hours of clandestine meetings with the real Hughes in hideaways in the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Florida, Mexico and California. Yet the edges were fraying. At one point, during the nighttime interview, he replied to a question: "Yes, I could have been dealing with an impostor [for Hughes]. It might have been a flimflam man." Then he veered back: the man he had met for all those hours could only have been Hughes. Finally, exhausted and suffering from a case...
With the kind of cast whose savvy spans a half-century of show business, Prince could do enough of what David Merrick calls "flimflam and legerdemain to cover an awful and gloomy book about nothing at all." Fortunately, the Prince and his Follies have that other talent: Stephen Sondheim. For the musical, he has written some of the glossiest, wittiest lyrics in Broadway history. His melodies gracefully genuflect to Kern and Gershwin, Berlin and Arlen. His words bow to no one. With Follies he has established himself, beyond doubt, as the theater's supreme lyricist...
...meet the demands of the moment. Observed TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey: "Richard Nixon's world is made of words and documents and statements. Within this world, he has proposed a revolution. But it is a world which is not always real. It is part flimflam. His revolution has been floated out there on oratory. It has no roots in the realities of Congress, the labor unions, industry, or Middle America...