Word: hoax
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...From then on," said one of the conspirators, "we were pretty sure we had it made." "A magnificent hoax," laughed Admissions Director Dunham. Flushed with success, the four are looking forward to next year. "We'd like to get Joe's girl friend into Vassar," a spokesman said...
...bullish bride market, even offers Bert the jus primae noctis. As for the gift, red-haired Julienne Marie, her wistful eyes and liquid singing voice alone are worth twice the auction price. Larry Blyden also shines as Dr. Mosk, the stethoscope-packing con man who masterminds Lahr's hoax...
...Goteborg papers reviewed the show. Wrote one: "Pierre Brassau paints with powerful strokes, but also with clear determination. His brush strokes twist with furious fastidiousness. Pierre is an artist who performs with the delicacy of a ballet dancer." One of the oils sold for $90. But not every monkey-hoax story ends with all the humans fooled. Wrote one of the critics, as the perceptive punch line of a harsh review: "Only an ape could have done this...
Taken as social comedy, The Golden Fruits is a marvelous hoax, an inside joke, which sums up and lampoons every possible critical position-from the visceral to the cerebral-so thoroughly that for a season or two, cocktail-party critics may find their tongues cleaving to the roofs of their mouths. It is also a killing parable about intellectual conformity. Most impressively, however, the book transforms a dry, decorous and essentially frivolous scene into a simmering sideshow in which a series of tiny figures, full of recognizably human venom and vulnerability, grapple cruelly with each other...
...thought that the victory had been won. When we got out, we discovered it was all a hoax. We had lost a real opportunity to redo Albany, and we lost an initiative that we never regained...