Word: impostor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Doctor. The astonished villagers soon learned why: Martin Godgart was an impostor. His real name is Ferdinand W. Demara Jr., and he is not just any everyday kind of impostor. At 35, he is a kid-gloved Walter Mitty, an audacious, unschooled but amazingly intelligent pretender who always wanted to be a Somebody, and succeeded in being a whole raft of Somebody Elses. Yet he apparently never bilked a penny from a soul...
...stations, and draws crowds wherever he pitches his revival tent. Since Australia usually welcomes visiting U.S. performers with open arms, his campaign down under should have gone well. But even before he landed in Sydney, a group of Australian preachers denounced him as a "fraud and impostor...
Under the headline: L'AFFAIRE MINOU DROUET: CHILD PRODIGY OR PRODIGIOUS IMPOSTOR? Elle described how Mile...
...Impostor (Shochiku; Brandon Films). Three Japanese films shown in the U.S. since the war-Rashomon, Ugetsu, Gate of Hell-were made, and made superbly, to win world prestige for the Japanese product. The Impostor was made for the folks back home who have a yen for the movies. The difference is startling. The other three often had the exquisiteness of Hokusai prints brought to life. The Impostor, far more popular at the Japanese ) box office, has the look of a grade A Hollywood costume adventure that was shot with an almond-eyed camera. The story opens in a geisha house...
...could guess who had tampered with the fresco, but apparently the damage was done centuries ago. Hardest to explain was the fact that, over those centuries, artists and scholars without exception accepted the mulish impostor as Michelangelo's work. "Probably," says De Campos, "it's because people take things for granted when a big name is involved...