Word: unwittingness
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Showing off, then, is a form of competition. But if the bulk of Americans cannot profitably throw themselves into the game, the future of parody display may not be as bright as Brooks would have us believe. For parody is a style that feeds on the growth of conspicuous consumption...
Though Houstonians had always assumed that Wiggins had a silent partner for his far-flung ventures, it now turns out, according to bank lawyers, that his unwitting sugar daddy was none other than Allied itself. By using a paper shuffle involving financial notes called bankers' acceptances, Wiggins, starting in...
As Bank Attorney Joseph H. Peck Jr. reluctantly confirmed, Wiggins' ploy was to sell bogus bankers' acceptances to unwitting buyers in New York. He was able to do this undetected because, in his capacity as head of international operations at Allied, he had authority to sell acceptances on...
The Camera Age, Arlen's latest collection, is also full of meticulously well-crafted writing. Thirty pieces, all written in the last five years for the pages of the New Yorker, are here. There are essays on "Dallas," on Olympic coverage, on the most ridiculous of game shows. Arlen has...
GOING TO the movies today gives one the feeling of being an unwitting contributor to a Hollywood Slice-N-Dice-a-Thon. The Saxon theater, the cheesy upstart of the Sack line, fills its lobby with horror film posters. To the left, a nubile woman is undergoing a tracheotomy by...