Word: hoax
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...having "intentionally fictionalized" their experience to "serve commercial purposes." In the play, as LIFE reported, the Hilliards are mistreated. The Hills said that this was a distortion of their own experience, since they had never been mistreated. However sympathetic the LIFE story, they said, the magazine had "perpetrated a hoax on its readers...
...Hoax." The publicity was what nettled Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity, target of the protest for not having acted on the campers' requests for $1,356,000 in housing and training grants. Said OEO Spokesman James Kelleher: "They can sit in the park until Christmas, but we're not going to provide funds for something that's a hoax...
...Striptease. Not surprisingly, the U.S. was eager to show off the nuke, to prove at least that the Costa Bomba, as it was being called, was demonstrably safe for tourists-in addition to rebutting in advance any murkey insinuations from Moscow that the recovery operation was all a big hoax...
...students agreed almost unanimously that while on a high, traditions and social customs appear nothing more than a cruel hoax which society has used to limit the true potential of individuals. "Society and its customs have put blinders on us all, and pot takes them off. Instead of thinking the same thoughts in the neat manner that we have grown accustomed to, drugs allow the mind to wander and form free associations that hardly seemed possible without them. From the summit of a high one can see what trivia our anxieties are made...
...crooks concoct an elaborate hoax about being cops, and there is much hokum with rattling of Venetian blinds, fake phone calls, unscrewing of fuses, disguises of voice. But Lee Remick is a sightless Penelope with uncanny perception who carefully unravels in Act II everything that the crooks have carelessly knitted in Act I; it takes a pretty dedicated mystery fan to follow every purl three, drop one, of this crazy pattern. In Act III the mayhem picks up, and a refrigerator becomes the most electrifying actor in the house...