Word: pranking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlisted Number. Judge Johnson pays no attention. Two boys once burned a cross in his front yard, but to Johnson it was just a prank. After anonymous callers threatened to bomb his family, he simply got an unlisted number; federal agents have periodically guarded his comfortable ranch house ever since. He keeps a current file on all active Alabama Klansmen. Asked whether his wires are tapped, Johnson lights up another Home Run cigarette (a brand that makes Gauloises seem bleu by comparison) and noncommittally drawls: "I've made a studied effort to avoid areas of paranoia...
...crowd which gathered on Mass Ave. showed little fear of an explosion. Most spectators believed the bomb threat was a Friday the 13th prank...
...officer of the 5th dismissed the whole thing as a prank, but there was no assurance that it would not happen again. When a government representative promised a tense meeting of the Kano Chamber of Commerce that all was under control, he was hooted down. "Assurances are no longer any good," retorted one local business leader...
...Nielsen Co.'s normally top-secret sample viewers, designed to ensure that they would watch Bob's performance. "I chose his show to rig because he is such a great man," joked Sparger. "Maybe I'll hire him," cracked Hope. Sparger repeated the prank three other times, but Nielsen was not amused. The company filed a $1,500,000 damage suit in Oklahoma City's Federal District Court...
Band of Outsiders, another backward-looking venture into crime, is a prank by France's prolific Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless), a wayward but talented wonder who fills the gap between his more inspired movies by sketching out such trifles as Outsiders. Heroine Anna Karina plays a wistful student who meets two ne'er-do-wells and helps them plan the robbery of her aunt's chateau. They bungle the job, but meanwhile abandon themselves to a couple of amusing Godardian escapades-taking over a cafe with an impudent little dance of alienation, romping through the Louvre...