Word: hoaxing
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Louis E. Martin, director of Widener Library, said he was not surprised at news of the hoax. "Everything else has happened in Widener," he said...
...Highland steer that had drowned in the lake. One skeptic, interviewed on British television, speculated that the head was a shot of a scuba diver wearing his breathing apparatus backward. A London paper noted that Nessie's proposed scientific name, Nessiteras rhombopteryx, is an anagram for "monster hoax by Sir Peter S."-a possible reference to Nessie Supporter Sir Peter Scott, who co-authored the Nature article with Rines...
...quit his job some time before to devote his time to refuling Darwin, which he saw as his mission in life, so now he sits in his apartment and reads books about evolution and writes letters to Harvard professors trying to convince them that it's all a hoax. My friend said through the heat and the noise of the tourists and Dr.Minyard, New Orieans decaying all around him, that he was making substantial progress, and although I had no good reason to I believed...
...more important to have a good divorce than a good marriage because it lasts longer," reflected Author Clifford Irving. Even so, Irving, 44, and his wife, 39, seem to have settled for just an estrangement. Since serving 17% months in jail for masterminding the Great Howard Hughes Hoax of 1972, Irving has been living in East Hampton, Long Island, where he is "plugging away on a novel." Edith has retreated to the Spanish island of Ibiza. Although she painted in prison, Edith abandoned her craft for almost a year after her release. She has since returned to work, and this...
...know why I did it," he chuckles. We protested something, but not in an effective way. Today, we would be protesting what we were asked to do, what we were required to, what our teachers were not doing. But I pulled this Charlie Chaplin hoax my senior year and announced a lecture in the chapel by the famous comedian Charles Chaplin. The poster we made up announced that the lecture was arranged by this professor, the man we were gunning for, who was a great name-dropper in the field of theater. Hundreds of cars came. It was a mess...