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Despite the change, R. Philip Dowds of Cambridge Citizens for Liveable Neighborhoods (CCLN) accuses the Inn's architects of "using every trick in the zoning book to get every single inch of size out of it." He says the architects have used ruses such as creating a fake roof line and raising dirt around the edge of the construction site to make the building seem smaller...
...Nevertheless, Hubbard was a moderately successful writer of pulp science fiction. Years later, church brochures described him falsely as an "extensively decorated" World War II hero who was crippled and blinded in action, twice pronounced dead and miraculously cured through Scientology. Hubbard's "doctorate" from "Sequoia University" was a fake mail-order degree. In a 1984 case in which the church sued a Hubbard biographical researcher, a California judge concluded that its founder was "a pathological liar...
...Carefully. A press release from "CBS News" trumpeted a 60 Minutes investigation: Japanese conglomerates now have the technology to duplicate U.S. currency and produce credit cards that allow "unlimited charges without having to pay the resulting bill." A network spokesman called the fake release the product of a "warped mind...
Their only resource is a small Henry Moore sculpture, the title's "object of beauty," and it is their prime subject of debate as they whine and dine. She owns it. He needs it. She thinks it would be nice to fake a theft and enter an insurance claim. He is in favor of a forthright sale. While Jake and Tina talk, their hotel maid acts: she makes off with the Moore...
...safety net is espionage; he becomes a full-time NKVD operative in Paris charged with maintaining ties to an imperiled Jewish industrialist in Berlin, who somehow knows how many bombers Germany is building each month. Fear not; Dark Star never becomes one of those breathless adventures that build fake suspense around schemes to stop Hitler. Plot is less important than Furst's powerful descriptive writing, particularly his account of Szara's nightmare flight across Poland in the first days of the war. What carries the book to a level beyond the cynicism of spy novels is its ability to carry...