Word: fakes
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...story which the opera tells so effectively concerns a fake spiritualist, her young daughter, and a mute boy who acts as their helper in the phony seances. During one such session, the medium discovers to her horror that she does indeed possess supernatural powers. But since she is unable to face the fact she fixes on the boy, blames him for tricking her, and drives him away. He, however, returns unseen, with inevitable tragic results...
...knew him. Not even his mistress could stand the man. The simple device which keeps up a creditable amount of suspense throughout the series of interviews which make up the body of the film is the question of whether the reporter will make the memorial show into a fake eulogy or tell the truth. The solution to his problem is as neat as everything else about the picture...
...tall, hefty center netted three goals in the game and on one of them he managed to fake out Brown's star goalie, Harry Batchelder, completely. Batchelder actually was the Bruins' only standout, turning in 47 saves, compared to Bailey's total...
...newly Democratic assembly, but was still waiting after 109 ballots for the deadlocked (15-15) senate to organize itself. Holmes let it be known immediately that he will be pulling strong on higher teacher pay, state government reorganization. One of his first acts was to toss the fake log out of the fireplace in his executive suite, replacing it with something more suitable for a timber-producing state: real logs...
...Cocteau gave it as his considered opinion that she was not a little girl but "an 80-year-old dwarf." A critic in Le Figaro said that her lines sparkled "with spontaneous sensations, new tingling images." Elle, France's biggest women's weekly, denounced her as a fake. They were all talking about nine-year-old Minou Drouet, whose poems launched a major cultural rhubarb in Paris (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955). Since then, Minou (a French pet name for "kitten") has fought back. When a critic sniffed that she should go back to her dolls, Minou answered: "Dolls...