Word: hoaxing
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...include that trite, tiresome hoax of the nonexistent "versatile artist" Cranford Glimp? It was demeaning to the genuine achievers you profiled and insulting to your readers. ROBERT BRIDGES Houston...
...naked woman lying on a queen-size bed is there on my computer screen, gazing expectantly at me. I've been doing this job so long, all I can think about is how TV-like the frame-rate is--so good, in fact, that I start to suspect a hoax. I mean, how would I know if there really was someone on the other end? It could be recorded. WAVE, IF YOU CAN READ THIS, I type, smug as Alan Turing. She waves. I run screaming from the office...
...were as tall as the Shroud of Turin seems to indicate, about 6 ft., don't you think Matthew, Mark, Luke or John would have mentioned his majestic height--far above average for the time--as evidence of his divinity? The shroud belonged to somebody else or is a hoax, but just try to reason with believers. IRA LEVIN New York City...
...there anything sweeter than the perfectly executed hoax? DAVID BOWIE, novelist William Boyd and others nearly pulled one off with the launch of the first book from Bowie's new publishing venture. It's Boyd's biography of little-known Abstract Expressionist painter NAT TATE, who, at 31, committed suicide after meeting Picasso and Braque and destroying most of his work, except the painting above. At the book party, English journalist David Lister asked guests if they had heard of Tate. Many had. Bad call. After very little digging, Lister discovered that Tate, photo and all, was a fiction. Boyd...
...think the best hoax of all was the one weplayed on Mike Barrett ['70] that [UniversityPresident Nathan M.] Pusey ['28] was going to besecretary of defense," Sorrento says...