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...secondary sets look flimsy and unrealistic. The actors obviously fluff their lines. The lighting crew blunders, keeping the audience in the dark for a minute after the curtain calls. The director embellishes the wedding and decapitation scenes with radically inappropriate music and choreography. Gomez's severed head screams fake. The technical crew fails to distinguish between night and day, keeping the action in a perpetual half-light that isn't eerie so much as confusing. A bizarre, frumpy flamenco routine lends little authenticity to the festivities. With all the resources available to a mainstage production, such blatantly amateurish lapses should...
...preachers, who first appeared this summer, say that "the white man is the devil," call white Jews "fake," and also counsel Black youths to avoid drugs. The Israelites speak three times a week in the middle of Central Square...
Warner Books canceled The Diary of Jack the Ripper just one month before it was to appear in bookstores. A dealer in historical documents deemed the writings fake since, among other findings, the penmanship was not Victorian and ink tests showed the papers were written around...
Everyone can get into the fraud game. Doctors and lawyers often work in tandem to alter medical records, fake injury reports and file claims for services never rendered. At hospitals, billing clerks discreetly boost the prices of low-ticket items, charging, say, $4.15 for an aspirin that costs 11 cents. "A lot of the billing frauds seem insignificant," says Ed Lueckenhoff, chief of the FBI's health-care-fraud unit. "But if you multiply that times thousands, it adds up to a lot of money. And this is a systematic scheme that is taking place with thousands of patients...
...performers in big bouffant skirts, styled to look like coral reefs and Neptune's daughters, prance about and sing tunes like Gloria Estefan's The Rhythm Is Gonna Get Ya. As the party builds to a climax, a mist spreads across the sea, and water streams out from the fake cliffsides. "It doesn't look like Japan here," said Mayumi Murano, a 21-year-old worker at a milk company, who came with two friends during a special preview. And does it matter that the real ocean is nearby? "It's great. The water is really wonderful and really clean...