Word: impostor
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...Viet Nam War. In 1975, briefly interrupting an eight-year period of work and study in Mexico, he weighed in with the pro-busing factions in Boston. "No one is going to force me out of the left," Leiken vows. "They may call me a defector and an impostor, but they're not going to force me to change the things that I believe...
...there always something futile, pathetic, uncomfortably personal about the post-script? Displaying its ostensible, self-conscious triviality like an impostor's fake medals, it challenges us to criticize: "Today only the critic executes the work (pun intended)." Yes, but who sentenced it to death...
...Webb is tricked into assuming his Bourne identity once again. His assignment this time: to track down an impostor threatening to plunge the Far East into war. The bait being dangled is Webb's equally scholarly wife Marie, who has been abducted by American agents and flown to Hong Kong, where much of the action takes place. It is all for the good of the country, though most of the way Webb and Marie find that hard to believe. So may readers. But credibility is hardly the point. Ludlum deals in male fantasies, and there are few two-fisted scribes...
This rude shock paled in comparison to the one I got 20 minutes later, when I entered a Woolco and saw another Santa. This one declared that the other one was an impostor sent by the Heat Miser to destroy him, but be did not convince me in the least. He was Vietnamese, and could not have weighed over 130 pounds...
Upton notified Travis last week that he would be arrested for trespassing if he returned to class, but the impostor vowed that he would be back in the class room...