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When the TV broadcaster found out that Finch was a fake, Plimpton added, he called the article a "cruel hoax...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plimpton's Hoax Places Harvard Fireballer on Mets | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...this as his "Bergman film": lots of deep talk and ripping off of psychic scabs. But this film maker is, spookily, inside kids. He knows how the ordinary teenagers, the ones who don't get movies made about them, think and feel: why the nerd would carry a fake ID ("So I can vote"), and why the deb would finally be nice to the strange girl (" 'Cause you're letting me"). He has learned their dialect and decoded it for sympathetic adults. With a minimum of genre pandering--only one Footloose dance imitation , --and with the help of his gifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Is There Life After Teenpix? | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

...lunacy. By the time of his death in 1976, the image lodged in the public mind was of an aging billionaire with uncut hair and Fu Manchu fingernails hidden in a darkened Las Vegas hotel room. An unhealthy disregard for reality became synonymous with the recluse's name. A fake autobiography by Clifford Irving and the forged "Mormon" will that brought fame to Melvin Dummar only made matters worse. One could never be sure of anything written by or about Howard Hughes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mad Money in High Places Citizen Hughes | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

Life is a nightmare for most people, who went something else...People went a lesser fake of Beauty...We've seen Beauty face to face, one time or another and said," of course, so that's what it's all about, no wonder I was born and had all those secret world feelings. Allen Ginsberg...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: A Beat Collage | 2/12/1985 | See Source »

...first meeting was with the Egyptian representative, Mohammed El-Kony, a total mediocrity. He was cheerful, insisting that reports of Egypt's loss of its air force were inaccurate. "We deceived the Israelis. They bombed some of our false airfields, where we deliberately placed fake plywood airplane models. We shall see who wins this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking with Moscow | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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