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...sound ground but playing an awkward role was Kenneth Rendell, a Newton, Mass., autograph analyst who was paid $8,000 by Newsweek magazine. Also separately advising Stern, he put the two volumes brought to New York by Koch under his microscope, photocopied and enlarged the words, and concluded that the books were forgeries. When he told this to Koch, Rendell says, "he was absolutely devastated." At week's end Rendell said that his sole interest was to pursue his theories about how "this mess," as he called it, had been created. He predicted teasingly and without explanation: "There is potentially...
...19th century Frenchman Denis Vrain-Lucas fabricated more than 27,000 documents purportedly from the hands of Archimedes, Sappho, Judas Iscariot, Caesar, Charlemagne and others, overplaying his own hand only when he forged a letter in which Pascal took credit for discovering the law of gravity, rather than Newton. Joseph Cosey, the most prolific of American forgers, displayed meticulous attention to detail while adding to the extant records of U.S. history from Aaron Burr through Abraham Lincoln. Britain's William Henry Ireland successfully duplicated Shakespeare, passing off manuscripts of Hamlet and King Lear, until his own addition...
...steel mills that shimmer in telephoto twilight. The sidewalks are clean as the Lido beach-must be where all the ironworkers got those golden tans. In a neighborhood bar, Alex (Jennifer Beals) and her chums put on a sexy, high-tech floor show that could exist only in Wayne Newton's dreams. One after another, lithe stunners display terrific muscle tone in discreet rock-'n'-roll stripteases. Alex lives in a loft about the size of SoHo, where she rehearses her dream: to win a job with the local ballet company. She gets it, helped by some...
...Phillips Brooks House Committee for the Homeless has coordinated the Harvard students, who will begin the walk at the Boston Common and continue to Newton...
...native of Newton, Debbie Kaufman has been the behind-the-scenes superstar of this year's squad. As captain of the team Kaufman has had to deal with a lot more than her over-head, and she has filled her position admirably...