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...telephone lines. With Phiber's help, the crew infiltrated the computer networks of TRW, Martin Marietta, the Bank of America, the National Security Agency and Chiquita Banana. At one point, two MOD members can be heard in a Secret Service wiretap hatching a scheme to create their own bogus credit bureau that would -- for the right price -- alter people's credit histories. "We can destroy people's lives," they boasted. "Or make them look like saints...
Attorneys for Chicago Congressmen Mel Reynolds today demanded that sexual molestation charges against him be dropped, after a man stood up in court and announced that the charges against the two-term Democrat were bogus. The man, who identified himself as Reginald Turner, said he was an attorney for a Reynolds campaign volunteer, now aged 18, who had claimed the congressman had sex with her two years ago, when she was underage. Turner said she has now recanted her allegation. He then read a statement that he said she wrote, which states in part that she had been coached...
...MASH was to war movies, Nashville to country music, A Wedding to the middle-class family, H.E.A.L.T.H. to the organic-food business and The Player to Hollywood, so is Ready to Wear to fashion: a comic panorama of people pretending to get along under stress, creating a bogus community, playing games of power and privilege, establishing who's boss. The tone of an Altman film -- the desperate milling, the sense of isolation within a crowd, the urgency to no clear end -- is the reflection of life on any movie set and, indeed, in the working lives of most people. When...
Wolf's self-proclaimed artistic mission was to increase awareness of the AIDS epidemic. Of course, with his bogus claim of censorship, he has most successfully increased awareness of Cameron Wolf, artist and self-promoter...
...have yet to see a Brink's truck following a hearse." Smitten by his swath and style, bankers fairly begged him to borrow their money; Merrill Lynch created three coin-trading funds for him to manage. McNall set up a bogus horse-appraisal firm, listing his chauffeur as owner and appraiser...