Word: hoaxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Douglas Stringfellow, 44, Utah Republican Congressman from 1952 to 1954, a paraplegic veteran whose wondrous accounts of his World War II adventures as an OSS agent got him elected, were broadcast on This Is Your Life, serialized in the press, then exploded as a hoax in 1954 (he had never been in combat, was injured in an accident), after which he became a landscape painter; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, Calif...
...they fooled around, laughing themselves silly while they took the photographs." Next, Munich police rounded up three youths who claimed that they had been talked into posing as a joke. Back in Paris, Paris Match Reporter Jean Taousson and Editor André Lacaze casually admitted the hoax. "The photos may imply stronger political ideas than those people really hold," Taousson explained lamely. "But in the article we did not say they were politically dangerous. We said they were nostalgic for Nazism, and in fact they...
...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...
...Godard uneasily combined with the self-absorption of Fellini's 8½ or the glib self-exposure of Arthur Miller's After the Fall. "I wish only to move, surprise, provoke," Jutra has written. "The important thing in life is to have fun. The rest is a hoax." Unhappily, the mirror he holds up to his own life reflects precious little fun. After a while, like any autobiographer who fails to make his subject interesting, he resembles a man absorbed in the act of shaving...
...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...