Word: impostors
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...does not ask to be God, and yet his role implies it. He wants to be fallible, and yet an instinctive conspiracy of the actors is to make him the arbiter, because an arbiter is so desperately wanted all the time. In a sense the director is always an impostor, a guide at night who does not know the territory, and yet he has no choice-he must guide, learning the route as he goes...
...knows better. Not since Mao Tse-tung managed to pass himself off as an agrarian reformer has power masqueraded in such an artful impostor. A Viet Nam-watcher for two decades (Vietnam: Between Two Truces) and a student of other power styles (De Gaulle), Biographer Lacouture has the difficult job of estimating a man who has made a career out of being underestimated and who wears ambiguity as practically his uniform. No wonder Ho and the book occasionally seem to dissolve into mist. But the tracking is never dull as Lacouture chases down his Asian escape artist...
...manager of the Chicago Cubs is obviously an impostor. The 1967 season is already more than half over, and this fellow who says he is Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, 60, has not cursed a single sportswriter, or attacked a single fan, and has been thrown out of only two games all summer...
Casino Royale starts with a premise that is cheerfully cheeky: Sean Connery is an impostor. The real 007 is David Niven, now Sir James Bond, retired to a county seat. Visited by an all-star team of secret agents including William Holden, Charles Boyer and John Huston, he is persuaded to re-enter Her Majesty's Service, an experience that he soon finds simply SMERSHing. Along the way he encounters Joanna Pettet, the byproduct of his illicit union with Mata Hari; Peter Sellers, a green-gilled card shark who impersonates James Bond; Woody Allen as Jimmy Bond, James...
...Hoffmann is something of an impostor; he is certainly not a typical critic of the government position," Ellsberg said. He added that there seemed to be very few points of disagreement, since Hoffmann had "conceded a number of points which usually form the body of the debate...