Word: flimflamming
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...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...
...expect all the flimflam to be swept away is, of course, absurd. Pressagents and windup plastic starlets are as much a part of movies as acetate; in one way or another, they always will be. And no matter how actors and actresses play themselves down, their films play them up. Movies are wide-screened, stereophonic and 30 times larger than life?so are actors. What is important is that many of the young actors can separate the reflected face on the screen from the original in the mirror...
...wonder how many who, having heard General LeMay's simple truths spoken with such straightforward intelligence, can still be swayed by that old flimflam about "wasting" a vote on Wallace. A vote for any team but Wallace-LeMay would be wasting 300 years of America...
Readers wary of the plush language of the "gadzooks, hussy!" school may be suspicious of the special idiom of Bring Larks. But there is no Errol Flimflam here. Keneally has devised a garbled-Gaelic speech that seems perfectly to fit the character of his protagonist who, like another gifted innocent, Billy Budd, speaks with the tongue of men and angels. In fact the doomed man's only legacy is verses, hidden in a government ledger and negligently destroyed by a bored governor who could make nothing of them. One poem hopes that out of the cesspool, time will "bring...
...about the matter of protecting sources. "Nobody's telling you nothing he doesn't want to see in print. They say, 'Don't print it' and they mean 'Print it.' So I say I won't, and I mean I will. Flimflam has gotta be met with equal flimflam. I don't regard anything as private-as long as I'm talking to public people...