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...chief credit goes to Baker, and not just because he's easy on the eyes. His (mildly) reformed flimflam man takes a cool, roguish pleasure in solving murders by reading the same tells and tics he once used to con people into thinking they were talking to dead loved ones. In one episode, he offhandedly tells a suspect woman what her type is - "sporty bad boys with a hidden masochistic streak" - and when she denies it, he grins and adds, matter-of-factly, "No, that was a bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mentalist: CBS's Psychic Friend | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

Florida's history is lush with volatility and flimflam. As Groucho Marx's real estate huckster warned in The Cocoanuts in 1929, "You can even get stucco! Oh, how you can get stucco." But eventually, the lies always seemed to come true, because there were always new dreamers from cold climates, and worthless swampland was just a drainage canal and a zoning variance away from becoming a golf-course subdivision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Florida the Sunset State? | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...outside the strike zone in a way that any player could but very few do. Steroids didn't do that." You have to credit Bonds for performing while opposing fans are throwing syringes at him and booing him. "I don't know 10 people who can take all the flimflam he has taken and still do that job," says Texas Rangers scout Mel Didier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should You Root for Barry Bonds? | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...much to stem the outflow of manufacturing jobs. Universal health care seems a pipe dream too. Indeed, Kerry's offering a $1,000 reduction in health-care premiums and a $4,000 tuition tax credit while he also promised to cut the budget deficit sounded like political flimflam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Values Gap | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...much to stem the outflow of manufacturing jobs. Universal health care seems a pipe dream too. Indeed, Kerry's offering a $1,000 reduction in health-care premiums and a $4,000 tuition tax credit while he also promised to cut the budget deficit sounded like political flimflam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Values Gap | 11/13/2004 | See Source »

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