Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three days after his wife's murder, Stuart collected an $82,000 insurance payment. Some reports claimed that he had also taken out more than $500,000 in extra life insurance; others alleged that Matthew and Charles had earlier plotted to fake a burglary of the couple's house, during which Carol would be killed. A Boston television station reported that on the night before he died Charles confided to a family friend that he killed his wife for the insurance money. He wounded himself in the abdomen when his plan to shoot himself in the foot went awry. Other...
Strasser's modernism does not mean that his interiors are unswervingly "honest." In the kitchenettes at Computer Associates, the black-and-white sobriety is relieved by a goofy pony-skin-pattern Formica counter, and structural columns in the cafeteria are nicely echoed by fake columns across the room. More typically, at the CRSS Dallas offices (which Strasser also designed), the handsome patterns of sprinkler heads in the ceiling are a game: some are real, others are small air-conditioning vents, still others are dummies, there simply to complete a pattern. What would otherwise be prosaic necessities, scattered helter-skelter, become...
...Buckner will admit he let the ball go through his legs on purpose. Jerry Tarkanian will admit he was paying his players the whole time. Tommy Lasorda will admit he hired a stunt double to look skinny for those diet commercials. Hulk Hogan will admit that professional wrestling is fake, and that only brain-dead people watch it. Jordan will admit he is not really from this planet, and will fly home. Tyson will admit he was beaten up by Barbara Walters (Why else would he have agreed to do that interview?), and will come out of retirement to challenge...