Word: hoaxing
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...that I begin to worry." Many are drawing the line at Snuff, a wretched soft-core movie in which a woman is eviscerated and sawed to pieces by a sadistic gang leader apparently modeled on Charles Manson. (Though the advertising implies the woman was actually murdered, it is a hoax.) "If anything should be censored," says Psychologist Wardell Pomeroy, co-author with Alfred Kinsey of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, "Snuff would head the list." The movie was banned in Baltimore, Wilmington, Del., and Orange County, Calif. In New York City, protesters picketed the theater showing Snuff. Such fledgling...
...This could just be an advertising hoax," Scollard said yesterday, "but even then it would be objectionable, because the implications are racist and degrading...
...quite sure how long it was after the second Franklin hoax that Spiro decided to move on to bigger things, even though he had not graduated from Tulane. But in the fall of 1968 he showed up at Harvard Law School, where he spent the next two and a half years. If the swagger and braggadocio were showing then, no one recalls it--in general, he didn't leave enough of a mark for professors to recognize him when he came back as Jason Cord...
...bill last month by a smashing margin of 321 to 80. The Senate in July had approved it, 65 to 28. But Ford used his 43rd veto to reject the bill, calling it "an election-year pork barrel." At his press conference last week, Ford attacked it as "a hoax." Most analysts agreed with him that it would have created far fewer than 600,000 jobs-although Ford's estimates that it would produce only some 100,000 jobs at a cost of more than $25,000 per job were exaggerations in the opposite direction. His telling argument...
...Larry J. Murphy said that the police believe that both calls were made by the same man. "He said that Harvard would be blown up, but we think that it was just a hoax," Murphy added...