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...accuracy that for months its editors ignored widespread doubts about the authenticity of Feature Writer Janet Cooke's profile of "Jimmy," a purported eight-year-old heroin addict; two days after the article was awarded a 1981 Pulitzer Prize, the Post belatedly announced that it was a fake...
...match-maker (Kamala Soparker) and the Rabbi (Peter Reale) are also noteworthy, While both characters are traditional stereotypes, Soparker and Reale put in enough energy to keep them from going state. In fact, the only minor character that does not transcend his stereotype is the Fiddler himself, whose obviously fake board emphasizes his obviously fake fiddling. But since the fiddler mainly appears on the rooftop, or peaks around the corner of the set, he does not direct from the overall effect...
Conan C. O'Brien '85, President of the Lampoon, denied that his organization had anything to do with the fake Bulletin. "This wasn't really our style," said the leader of the social club that periodically publishes parodies. "We're too busy working on another prank, something like crumbling the government," he added...
...thin gray envelopes. He embossed their names on the inside of the machine and teased them with promises of fame when the computer came out. Last year when the Mac group moved into a larger home, Jobs spent $ 1 million on decor. The building now has an atrium and fake skylights. He also installed a Toshiba Compact Digital Disc player and 6-ft. tall Martin-Logan speakers that play classical and rock music 24 hours...
...magazine, H.S.A. Committee Member Ralph Cook described Britain's 3,380,000 recreational fishermen as villains who lure "unsuspecting sentient creatures onto sharp-barbed hooks." The magazine called on the H.S.A.'s 3,500 members to frustrate anglers by peppering the water with pebbles, posting fake health notices at fishing spots and scaring potential catches away with underwater ultrasonic devices. For a lone fisherman, Cook suggested, "a nudge in the back works wonders," but that piece of counsel was blacked out in the magazine on the basis of legal advice and misgivings of committee members...