Word: impostor
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...press. "I'm just me, see." he says. "If some people don't notice me, that's good. I got enough people pestering me. I'm making money, ain't I? That's enough for me." When Ali starts his familiar gate-hypoing routine by calling Joe a "chump," "impostor," "amateur" and "tramp," Frazier mutters something about "childishness" and goes on his way. Joe is proud of his rough skills and his success, proud of being a poor black who made good. "I ain't no Tom," he growls. It nettles him slightly that black celebrities?from Julian Bond...
...sustenance-is absent. The actor fears a hostile or unappreciative audience, but knows he must perform, that his hands and body are strictly choreographed; he is defenseless at the height of his anxiety. (As opposed to the paranoiac, who can try to flee his imagined dangers, or to the impostor, who can regulate the time and place of his performance.) So, backstage, the actor goes through various defenses beforehand-holding a cigarette perhaps, or squeezing a rubber ball, or simply wringing his hands. Aside from these manipulations, he may steel himself with pep talk or by elaborately pretending indifference...
...Coca-Cola. ··· With no training beyond two years of high school, he was successful as a surgeon, a psychology professor, a deputy prison warden and a zoologist. Little has been heard from Ferdinand Waldo Demara since Tony Curtis portrayed him in the 1961 film The Great Impostor. Now he has turned up as the pastor of a small Baptist Church on an island in Puget Sound, near Seattle. His flock of 30 has heard rumors about the Rev. Dr. Fred Demara, as he styles himself, but finds him "a tremendous...
...became a brilliant pupil of Jesuit tutors. But upon reading Darwin's The Origin of Species, he started the opening battle in his long war against church and state. At the University of Madrid, he was an intimate of the revolutionary poet Federico Garcia Lorca and the genius-impostor Salvador Dali, with whom he shared two main interests, cinema and surrealism. Later, they made two pioneer films: The Andalusian Dog, notable for its explicit Freudian imagery and resolute non-meaning, and The Age of Gold, which contained frenzied images of a homicidal Christ figure. That succ...
When Andy Warhol sent an impostor to represent him on a lecture tour eleven months ago, he was offering the public another medium of pop art. The deception was not essentially different from producing soup cans and Brillo boxes in wood and paint. Pop art is premised, after all, on the belief that the surfaces of things are what really matter, or that, as Oscar Wilde wrote in The Picture of Dorian Gray: "The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible...