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Word: hoaxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...listeners to send in sales receipts to prove that blacks shopped at CompUSA. They sent five big boxes to CompUSA but got no reply. Then Joyner read on the air an insulting letter that had been faxed to the show on CompUSA stationery. It turned out to be a hoax, and he had to apologize. It looked like the campaign might fizzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racism in Advertising? | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...brilliant Dr. Casper refuses to believe that bats are responsible for any of the bizarre attacks on humans and animals in the area of Gallup. She instead attempts to explain them away as part of some anti-bat conspiracy hoax. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Kasper really does love her bats. A whole lot. Only when she encounters government scientist Dr. Alexander McCabe (Bob Gunton), does she realize that the bats in Gallup are far from normal (a fact which is clear to the audience within the first five minutes of the movie, from their claymation appearance and vicious teamwork...

Author: By Carla Mastraccio, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ouch! Bats Bites | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...University of Miami found that 26 adults given 15-min. back rubs twice a week for five weeks showed signs of less stress, were less depressed and performed better on math tests. "Something's working," says Marcia Kilgore, the founder of Bliss. "Or this is the biggest hoax since The Blair Witch Project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day at the Spa | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...minimum bid would be $3,140,000." To even the most avid online collector, this seemed far-fetched--not to mention medieval--as if a package deal of techies could be bartered like a set of Limoges china or Star Wars lunch boxes. Surely it had to be a hoax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We're for Hire, Just Click | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...Marxist doctrines responsible for this mayhem are being taught today by the same people who helped perpetrate Rigoberta's hoax," the advertisement says...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scholar Accuses Nobel Winner of Fakery in Ads | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

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