Word: hoaxing
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...have already described--too temperately, I fear now--my attitude to this film in a letter to that other bedazzled Harvard news organ, the Independent (Feb. 8-14). I find this film effusive, school-girlish, bathetic, and jejune. How can we be taken in by a mocking, if unwitting, hoax about madness, how can we think that schizophrenics act like simple, charming enthusiasts at a fancy dress ball? And its humor is saccharine; its thought, meretricious...
...Augusta cajoles, lies, steals, blackmails, and is deported in the course of her mission. Having sacrificed practically all she own when she finally does deliver the ransom, she collapses hysterically in her aged lover's arms, only to find that he has duped her. The ransom was a profiteering hoax, and he leaves her stranded on the African shore...
...newspaper series ended. That's not Martin Bormann they think they found in South America. It's Howard Hughes. Or . . . Ladislas Farago is just a fancy new pen name for Clifford Irving. The allusions were inevitable. Farago himself expected them. Indeed, when Clifford Irving's hoax autobiography of the recluse billionaire was exposed ten months ago, Farago decided to delay his research on Bormann until the din died down. "I said to myself," he recalled last week, "no matter what I'm going to do, this is going to be regarded in the same category. Even...
...hoax, which was distributed in House dining halls early yesterday morning, fooled students, many of whom were still hung over from post-game partying...
...page Yale hoax reported that Kissinger would reassume a professorship next semester after four years as special assistant to President Nixon. The paper quoted President Bok as saying. "It is likely that there is a substantial element of truth in the reports of Dr. Kissinger's return to our faculty...