Word: forgers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hanoverian monarchs because of the prominence it gave to visiting Englishmen, even though it reproduced more than a dozen masterpieces of Italian art. Later scholars did blow ups of each of the copied paintings and found that the varied brushwork of early masters was imitated with a genius forger's fidelity...
...early '50s. One of the first celebrated artists to rely wholly on synthetics was Holland's Hans van Meegeren, who used them to paint equally synthetic Vermeers in the 1930s. Since new oil paint can be distinguished from old in a simple laboratory test, the forger used a heat-setting resin to avoid detection...
...stage-clearing-made-simple is not nearly so regrettable as leaving a major scene unwritten. Simon Peters, angrily growled by Armand Asselin, changes offstage from the believer in miracles. Thomas's theological opponent, to one who sees the validity of Thomas's doubts. Peter then vows to become a forger of God and perpetuate an idol. The reasons for his transformation are not even implied in this final and crucial confrontation with Thomas...
...Forger Turner, who used to be Clarence Gideon's neighbor at Florida's Raiford state prison, has been the brains (IQ 140) behind more than 100 would-be Gideonites. A onetime insurance claims adjuster, Turner picks up clients through the prison grapevine, studies their court records, and has often drawn up petitions, hand-printed by a dozen other convicts. Turner's legal skills have already forced public defenders to handle all Gideon Petitions, made court clerks abolish the usual $25 filing fee. At times he writes like a judge: "This breathes of the appellate court...
...surviving defendants. The prosecutor produced a witness who testified that he had once seen Lopez trying to sell ducks at an open-air market. But the defense attorney, who had taken the trouble to investigate the story, demolished the prosecution by proving that the witness, a convicted forger, had been confined in a hospital at the time when he claimed to have seen Lopez at the market. Despite this setback, the prosecutor kept chugging along with his efforts to prove the defendants guilty...