Word: swindler
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...Expert. De Angelis hardly looks the part of an international swindler. Short, fat and 50, he wears pearl grey ties and a perpetual look of hurt innocence. Although he pleaded guilty, he continues to blame his troubles on jealous competitors ("Powerful forces were working against me") and on the Department of Agriculture ("They called me a guinea bastard down there...
...virtually no background in the field. A lawyer from North Carolina, Murphy has served in Government for 28 years in a wide range of jobs, notably as President Truman's special counsel from 1950 to 1953. During the Senate investigation of the financial shenanigans of Convicted Swindler Billie Sol Estes, Democrat Murphy, then Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman's right-hand man, was roundly criticized by Republicans for showing favoritism to Estes, but he emerged from the scandal unscathed after Freeman vouched for his integrity...
...Catherine Deneuve). He divorces her, the better to enjoy her favors when she becomes another man's wife. Brialy, a successful "lay-out artist," jilts his bride (Marie Laforêt) at the altar, leaves for a solo honeymoon m Athens, where he matches wits with a^ vivacious swindler (Françhise Dor-léac, real-life sister of Actress Deneuve), who ultimately becomes his better half...
OPERA: Baritones rarely get the girl, but this year they take the cake. Geraint Evans turns in one of opera's great characterizations as the lecherous old swindler in RCA Victor's Falstaff, amply supported by the other singers and by Conductor Georg Solti. In Rigoletto (Deutsche Grammophon), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. best known for his sorrowful lieder. proves himself equally expressive as the tragic hunchback in a powerful performance led by Rafael Kubelik...
...BIDONE. Though it sometimes seems a fumbling first version of 81/2, this Italian tragicomedy about a smalltime swindler (Broderick Crawford) in bishop's clothing stirs interest as the missing volume of Director Federico Fellini's "trilogy of Solitude" begun wi:h La Strada and ending in Le Notti di Cabiria...