Word: charlatan
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...says, sending a swift shot to the rake's midriff and pulling his coat down from his shoulders, thus locking the charlatan's hands in his pockets. Instead of disarming the sap as Bogart does at a moment just like this in The Maltese Falcon, Henry sends the bum sprawling into the gutter with an efficient trip. He flips up Higginbottom's coattails and, performing a maneuver familiar to most 11-year-olds as a "wedgle," pulls the elastic of his victim's underwear far into the pitiless...
...repository for his official papers. He has finally settled on Duke University, his law school alma mater (class of '36), but a number of professors, alumni and students have objected to Duke's willingness to accept the trove. They say the library will commemorate a criminal, a liar, a charlatan and a man who disgraced his country. This may be true, but given the right circumstances, Nixon's opponents should reevaluate their crusade and welcome the papers to the Durham, N.C., campus...
...extreme and pro duce detailed confessions even when nobody asked them. The nation surely had no "need to know," as the White House says, but Jimmy Carter confessed to Playboy in 1976 that he had felt lust in his heart for women other than his wife. That robust literary charlatan Frank Harris went to the trouble of inventing all kinds of elaborate sexual adventures to confess; with both Carter and Harris, confession shaded into exhibitionism...
...provide 10% of the total college enrollment. True, the many black colleges are still inferior to many white ones, and about half of black college students attend traditionally black institutions. But Watson concedes: "The fortunes of black Americans seeking higher education have improved dramatically. Only a fool or a charlatan would deny that there has been progress...
...Brad Dourif (the stuttering inmate in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), the young hero is an angry, obsessed loner with penetrating eyes and a fierce bark. When he tries and fails to start his new church, he meets a large array of even greater crackpots: a charlatan street preacher who fakes blindness (Harry Dean Stanton), a zookeeper (Daniel Shor) in search of an animalistic deity, an evangelical merchandising expert (Ned Beatty) and some sex-starved belles (Amy Wright, Mary Nell Santacroce). Huston has great affection for these people, even if Hazel does not: the misfits are celebrated...