Word: charlatan
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...always, the West End is also a showcase for revivals: Our Town with Alan Alda and Robert Sean Leonard; Becket, with Derek Jacobi as the saintly bishop and Robert Lindsay as his carousing King; Tartuffe, with Paul Eddington as the dithery paterfamilias turned acolyte to a charlatan and Felicity Kendal as the saucy, commonsensical maid in a cheerily broad staging, almost willfully devoid of undertone or relevance, by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
Over the years, the public has come to expect that kind of desperate oratory from a charlatan like Farrakhan, who usually concludes his remonstrations by saying, "All white America could be asked to die to equal the score." But even more responsible Black leaders have fanned the flames of resentment with attempts to blame "whitey." Of course there are white racists in America, but they aren't running the justice department...
...wackos and murderers aside, Ghost is a little like Caspar in that it doesn't have a mean bone in its body. This is a well-intentioned, often corny and misguided movie. If the hilarious mugshots of Oda Mae from her charlatan past don't make you laugh, the special effects will. Ghost is bad enough to be good, and sweet enough that you'll forgive its transgressions...
...Seven Pillars of Wisdom but as he parceled it out to friends, does not finally resolve the enigma of his character or explain his place in history. He would be easier to understand if he were simply larger than life or what his detractors claimed: a self-aggrandizing charlatan. But he took no pleasure in his notoriety; he ran from it. The Selected Letters adds another interpretation to an already overwrought tale. The age demanded a hero, Lawrence qualified, and the 20th century then got what it deserved: a loner, an ascetic, a man who might have been happier...
That such a notorious white supremacist could run and win under the G.O.P. banner was especially embarrassing to Lee Atwater, chairman of the Republican National Committee. Atwater has embarked on a campaign to broaden his party by attracting more blacks. He derided Duke as "a pretender, a charlatan and a political opportunist" who turned Republican shortly before the special election primary on Jan. 21. Duke finished first in a seven-candidate field...