Word: ruse
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...creation, most drawn by others--were emerging. There was the weepy, repentant Mary at her original sentencing. "Help us. Help us all," she begged the judge. Moore believes this was "the real Mary," brought back to reality by Depakote, a mood stabilizer. Others suggest it was a ruse (successful) to win leniency...
...during vacation, he began obsessing over twin passions: girls and gangs. "He said he'd give anything to be in a gang," says Niemeyer. "He'd kill anyone to be in a gang." Schoolmates in Jonesboro say Mitch began wearing red to signal his membership in the Bloods, a ruse that they saw straight through. A wannabe, most of them concluded. The slightly paunchy boy also fancied himself a Romeo and, with an intuitive sense of drama, vowed suicide when a Minnesota Juliet wanted nothing to do with him. "He was crying a lot," recalls his buddy Andrew O'Rourke...
...summer of 1995, sources have told TIME, Willey was in the midst of a brief relationship with a British-born soccer coach whom she made the target of a bizarre ruse almost straight out of an Aaron Spelling production. In an interview with the FBI, Willey's former confidant Julie Steele has claimed that the onetime socialite told her lover, Shaun Docking, she was pregnant with his twins--even though Willey had told Steele she was not pregnant. Willey's motive? She wanted to get back at him for Fourth of July plans gone awry, Steele told...
...daughter's conversations on Linda Tripp's notorious audiotapes. As Lewinsky and Tripp discuss a plan to have Tripp fake a foot injury to avoid a scheduled deposition, Lewinsky gets a call on her other line from her mother, during which she allegedly tells Lewis of the ruse. Returning to Tripp, Lewinsky reports, "She said, 'Brilliant...
SENTENCED. VINCENT ("The Chin") GIGANTE, 69, Mob boss whose famously odd behavior (namely, roaming the streets in a bathrobe) was judged a ruse; to 12 years in prison, for murder-conspiracy and racketeering; in New York City. Gigante was also fined $1.25 million...