Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with an ironic twist that can pass for 1980s modernism. We're so hip, we know that every movie thrill is a fraud. We know the technique behind each matte shot, each jive emotion. Perhaps the audience at some B-minus sci-fi thriller in the 1950s solemnly attended to the stilted dialogue, leaden performances and not-so-special effects. But today's cognoscenti find the dew of nostalgia on these pictures, then wink and say, "They're so bad, they're good." Smart directors stoke the trend with camp updates of the olden turkeys. In Tobe Hooper's remake...
...decent little guy or distressed damsel. The evidence often seems overwhelming. The shattering aftereffects of World War I, the rise of organized crime during Prohibition, the disillusionment of the Depression, all paralleled the development of the gallant equalizer. Today he is likely to deal with government corruption, financial fraud and environmental threats. "I don't consider my newest book, Barrier Island, as hard-boiled fiction," says John D. MacDonald. "It's about a land scam in islands off the Mississippi coast." The detective story is one of the few fiction forms that deal directly with the seamier side of American...
Four alumni have filed a complaint with the state attorney general seeking an investigation of this year's Board of Overseers election. The complaint charges that the University illegally tampered with the election and that University President Derek. C. Bok committed fraud...
...addition, Reagan's determination to "shrink the size of the federal government" has led him to cut programs and attempt to eliminate "fraud, waste, and abuse," Baker said...
Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, no stranger to the gambling tables, took the risky course of allowing his second trial on racketeering and fraud charges to go to the jury without presenting a defense. On Saturday afternoon the Governor won big. The jury found Edwards and four other defendants innocent of all charges, which were connected to a hospital-investment scheme that had netted the flamboyant Governor $1.9 million between his second and third terms. Said a jubilant Edwards: "I feel vindicated...