Word: pranksterism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience, even to the point of facial telegraphy with broad smirks, grins and grimaces. It is an attention-getting device for securing the playgoers' sympathy. As a result, the corrupt ambition and awful malignity of Richard are whittled away, and he appears as no more than a roguish prankster...
...fossil was dubbed, was a fraud. It consisted of nothing more than fragments of modern human skulls mingled with portions of a contemporary ape jaw with teeth doctored to give them the appearance of antiquity. As the years passed, scientists abandoned hopes of ever identifying the prankster...
...That's his hobby. He steals flags wherever he goes," Tomoo Misaki, a member of Delta-Tau, who refused to identify the prankster, said yesterday...
Like the swimming test Mrs. Widener demanded and the Polaroid camera shape of the Science Center, the steam tunnels are a part of Harvard legend. A cloudy mixture of fiction and fact, their dimensions expand with each prankster's tale and their history grows more fantastic. One story tells of a sly undergraduate who, dressed as a workman, avoided the winter snows by travelling to classes through the tunnels. During the 1969 occupation of University Hall, another rumor has it, Harvard administrators escaped invading protesters by fleeing through the underground passages. Once upon a time, the wrestling team jogged through...
...sportscasters sitting boggled before their monitors?was recently seen to smile. Two plays ahead in his head or not, he now walks over to pat a player on the back after a big play, occasionally. He is no Red Miller, to be sure. Once, when former Dallas Quarterback and Prankster Don Meredith had his teammates laughing during practice, Landry's perspective on such doings was firmly spelled out: "Gentlemen, nothing funny ever happens on the football field...