Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cruel hoax was perpetrated on the contestant, spectators, and Aunt Jemima at Wednesday's first annual Quincy House Pancake Eating Contest, The official winner, the Raccoon, admitted that an integral part, in fact the only part, of his training had been smoking a drug known as marijuana. He also said that he had had two joints before the contest...
...Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney," who enthusiastically confess in a chatty little Forward how they overcame being 'handicapped by near-fatal hangovers and the loss of all our bodily hair (but that's another story).' Another story, indeed! For between this brace of leering parentheses, the whole hoax is revealed. Obviously, the Beard-Kenney persona is just a fictional mask, created by the Real Author in hopes that by hinting at the Ivy League counterpart of a Capote-and-Vidal collaboration, the value of his book's movie rights will escalate astronomically...
...these are only pieces of Mr. Hyland's exercise in personal catharisis and public outrage. I confess that when I first read it. I didn't know whether it was meant to be taken seriously. Was it some kind of hoax? If I wanted to look through the literature and find an example of mindless, gastric-juice romanticism. I couldn't have found a better example. If I quoted it to my class, the students would think I'd made it up. It's the kind of piece-along with the accompanying report on the CFIA-that one is ordinarily...
...pull off the hoax, "a Paul lookalike contest was held and a living substitute found in Scotland... an orphan from Edinburgh named William Campbell... Minor plastic surgery was required to complete the image." Not only did Campbell look amazingly like McCartney, according to LaBour, but "the difference in voice timbre between the original and phony Paul... was so slight" that the Scottish orphan was able to sound the same as Paul...
...Small of WKNR seems to be correct in saying that "whether Paul is dead or alive, there is a hoax here somewhere. The Beatles have a definite preoccupation with Paul's death- physical, spiritual, or fictional." Small mentions three possible explanations for the preoccupation besides the religious one- that Paul is alive and well and "the Beatles are playing a game for the hell of it." that Paul is dead and the Beatles are hoaxing their fans, and that Paul is very ill and has been replaced by a double...