Word: scamming
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...lads shout, "Go back to Poland!" at the uncomprehending laborers. At an intersection, fenders graze and tempers flare. In a supermarket, a woman in a fur coat filches consumer goods the Poles could neither find nor afford back home. (Her thievery gives Nowak the inspiration for his own shopping scam.) A derelict steals Nowak's food and saves him from being apprehended with it. London, the dowager queen putting her gaudiest remnants on fire sale, seems so different from Warsaw. But the enforced meanness of its spirit makes the displaced Poles feel almost at home...
...parade of Pavarotti's greatest hits, plus a funny nun, two funny servants and a not-so-funny food fight (in case someone from the Animal House crowd wanders in by mistake). Franklin J. Schaffner has directed as if no one let him in on the scam. Poor chap seems to be taking the whole thing seriously. Or maybe he just ran too many old Mario Lanza pictures in preparation for the assignment. Still, amid prodigies of too carefully calculated (or miscalculated) charm, Pavarotti plays with a certain ingratiating diffidence. Movies are not where he lives, and he behaves...
Wall Street's rally in the midst of a bust economy is a scam initiated by the Feds and timed for elections. The big-money interests can and will lead the way out, grabbing nice profits, just about the time the small investor decides that he too should put his dollars into the market...
Although public attention has recently been on the Japanese, the Soviets are the main focus of Operation Exodus and other campaigns. Insiders say that what the press had dubbed the Japan-scam sting operation was really a trap laid for Communist agents. In that case, the FBI arrested employees of Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and charged them with conspiring to transport stolen IBM computer secrets from California's Silicon Valley, near San Francisco, to Japan...
Pass's scam was exposed when police in Glastonbury, Conn., caught him just as he was escaping from a burglarized house. His previous criminal record, it turned out, included 26 felonies and 50 misdemeanors. Fass has now begun a prison term of 13 to 26 years for burglary...