Word: flimflams
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...black pimps in high heels to gaudily painted transvestites to the "Christmas-tree man," whose head, coat, shut and pants are festooned with tinsel and trinkets. Snaking stealthily through this Brueghelian scene in search of likely prey are a host of Manhattan's pickpockets, strong-arm muggers, and flimflam artists, as well as an occasional rapist...
...activities that they have uncovered add up to an astonishingly audacious business flimflam. In dire need of cash because of sagging mutual fund sales, the company's officials in 1969 devised what seemed to be a surefire way to get capital, brighten their balance sheets and keep their stock attractive. They began inventing fictitious insurance policyholders, putting them on the books and selling the phony policies to other companies that were in the business of reinsurance. Under this arrangement, the reinsurer pays the company that sold the policy $1.80 for every $1 it gets in premiums the first year...
...least demented. Burt Lancaster may have been a tainted exploiter in Elmer Gantry, but that was at least fiction. Marjoe is very real and very chilling, an unholy innocent who seems to see himself as nothing more than a Peck's Bad Boy, a flimflam man of God who gives good service in return for his dollar. Marjoe believes-and the movie demonstrates-that he did give something to many of the trusting blacks and whites who emptied their pockets for his prayer cloths: rapture here, deep joy there, and many a psychosomatic cure. Marjoe...
...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...