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...Boeing 707 took off from the Dominican Republic, bound for Montreal. Inside the cabin rode 47 Chinese, all of them sitting comfortably in the first-class section. The cockpit crew thought they were VIPs, but as soon as the plane was in the air, the passengers began shredding the fake British Hong Kong passports that had got them this far and took turns flushing the illegal documents down the toilets. Upon arrival, the passengers -- mainland Chinese citizens who had paid as much as $20,000 each for their journey to freedom -- pleaded for refugee status to immigration agents, who promptly...
...thousands of years since, there have been fake epics and poems, fake royal seals and family trees, fake historical relics (from chastity belts to spurs of warriors killed on the field of Agincourt), fake newspapers, propaganda photos, films and books. Some of these, like the so-called Protocols of the Elders of Zion, forged by a 19th century Russian anti-Semite, have had appalling political consequences. Others, like the work of the fictional bard Ossian and the skull of Piltdown man, have had deep cultural ones. Others still, like the phony mermaids that turned up in the cabinets of Renaissance...
...course, the field widens immensely -- as does the spectrum of motives and responses. An honest copy becomes a fake when the context of desire is switched. There are Egyptian statues from the 7th century B.C. that deliberately copy the archaic style of Old Kingdom figures done nearly two millenniums before. Chinese craftsmen in the Sung dynasty made ritual bronze vessels almost indistinguishable from those of the Shang period, 2,100 years earlier. Roman sculptors in the 2nd century A.D. made versions of 5th century B.C. Greek prototypes, and from then on, there would be an immense industry in the copying...
This is a subject that makes museums nervous, and perhaps it is not so strange that no museum show in recent memory has focused on forgery and its ramifications. Hence the interest of "Fake? The Art of Deception," a sprawling and overcrowded array of more than 600 objects, on view at the British Museum. "We are all emotionally involved with fakes; nobody wishes to be associated with them," the museum's director, Sir David Wilson, sagaciously remarks in the catalog. "Fortunately, most of the worst errors are our own, the result of nearly 2 1/2 centuries of collecting." The reluctance...
...gangs, once considered relatively harmless adjuncts to male crews, have become dangerous, independent groups. In an interview with Taylor's research team, one female gang member bragged of ousting unwanted guests who tried to "bum rush" a party. The guests fled, she said, after "I cut loose on their fake asses with that...