Word: hoaxing
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Bachrach said his campaign against Kennedy had accentuated differences between the candidates despite their similar views on issues such as arms control. "These issues are far too important to divide us," he said, calling on the Democratic Party to unite in condemning the "Star Wars" program as a "cruel hoax...
...violently cross-grained man. His life belonged as much to the history of publicity as to the history of literature. He was a splendid writer who became his own worst creation, a hoax and a bore. He ended by being one of the most famous men in the world, white-bearded Mr. Papa. He stopped observing and started performing. He sentimentalized and pontificated and lied and bullied...
...Heinz Braun, an East Berlin tire salesman, captured worldwide attention when he claimed to have escaped to the West by painting his car to resemble a Soviet patrol vehicle and dressing himself and three mannequins in Soviet army uniforms. Last week Braun admitted that his story was a hoax. His coconspirator, West Berliner Wolfgang Quasner, said the bogus flight was intended to dramatize the tragedy of the Wall on the eve of its 25th anniversary. But there is speculation that the two men staged the stunt in the hope of making a fortune by selling the rights to their story...
Forty years later, Massman, now 70, retrieved the album and sold it to Randall Donley, the owner of a local museum. Donley contacted United Press International, which set out to authenticate the photos. Last week experts proclaimed the pictures the real thing--maybe. After the memorable Hitler- diary hoax of three years ago, few experts were eager to put their reputations on the line once more...
Paris 1986: Surprise! Shi Peipu was a male transvestite who somehow managed to perpetrate a 19-year hoax on the unsuspecting Boursicot by faking femininity and pregnancy and providing a baby boy who had been bought from a doctor in the Xinjiang region. Boursicot claimed that he did not discover the truth until he was arrested by French intelligence agents on charges of espionage. After hearing the strange case, seven judges last week sentenced both the hapless accountant and the former dancer to six years in prison. Their "son," Shi Dudu, now 20, was in the Paris courtroom...