Word: hoax
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...idea, they said, as they "were listening to the faintly melodious sounds produced by the moving of chairs." Said Miss Bradshaw: "We dragged together all the instruments we could find and went around the studio banging them.'' She was pleased with the results. "It was a serious hoax," she said. "That fake music can be indistinguishable from the genuine is a reflection on certain trends in present-day composition...
Nothing much happens in these stories, and nothing much is meant to happen. There is tension without release, motion without direction. As a mask dropper, Lowry keeps reappearing under names that are part symbol, part joke and part hoax: Sigbjørn Wilderness, Kennish Drumgold Cosnahan, Roderick McGregor Fairhaven. It would be easy to dismiss these characters as anxious bores if they were not also unholy ghosts, shadows of a perturbed spirit, "ghouls of past delirium, wounds to other souls, ghosts of actions approximating to murder, betrayals of self and I know not what, ready to leap out and destroy...
Gagarin's alleged space flight, as reported is so full of contradictions as to be unbelievable. Your naive acceptance of this Russian hoax as truth is an insult to the intelligence of every thinking American and does a grave injustice to those engaged in our own space program...
...masterpiece at the elegant Excelsior Gallery in Mexico City in 1958. Most of the Campalans paintings in the accompanying exhibition were snapped up. Said Famed Muralist David Siqueiros, thoroughly duped: "I knew Campalans well in Paris. Orozco liked him very much." A few weeks later Aub confessed his hoax. Mexicans fumed, then laughed embarrassedly...
...avant-garde critic might use about a genuine abstraction: "The huge central element, generally globular in shape, is the very apotheosis of the inertness of matter." It was an amusing satire on the prevalent gobbledygook, and by implication at least, it lumped all abstract expressionism together as one big hoax...