Word: fakes
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...quiet nightmare haunting museum directors is the fear that they may wind up with a fake masterpiece on their hands. Last week Sir Philip Hendy, director of London's august National Gallery, woke up to find that for him the dream had come true. A London art dealer had proved that the National Gallery's Virgin with Angel and Child by the 15th century Italian, Francesco Francia, was a fake...
Ever since a bomb exploded in the big Meier & Frank department store (TIME, April 25), Portland, Ore. has been keyed to a high pitch-somewhere between a laugh and a scream-by fake bomb threats. Last week another bomb exploded in Portland, this time with fatal results. The victim: Oliver Kermit Smith, 35, a prominent lawyer who lived in the highly respectable Alameda district with his wife, Marjorie, 34. After an evening of gin rummy at the Columbia-Edgewater Country Club, he called his wife to say he would be home in 10 minutes; he went...
...dividing Catholics and changing the essence of the only church of Christ." In other words, Li Wei-Kwang is helping to set up the Communists' bogus "Catholic Church" in China, similar to the "independent Catholic" churches in European Iron Curtain countries. Rumored in the offing: election of a fake Chinese "Pope...
...turned the attack (on the 'Nixon fund') to his and his party's advantage." It is just this type of "skill" which has made him the "Political Enemy No. 1" not of the Democrats but of the Republicans. Mr. Nixon stands unchallenged as the top-ranking fake and opportunist in contemporary American politics...
...asked to rebut its accusations. Lawrence of Arabia, A Biographical Enquiry, by Novelist Richard Aldington, says without mincing words that, far from being a hero, Lawrence of Arabia was a misbegotten fraud, a perverted charlatan, a pretentious demagogue, possibly a homosexual, certainly a poseur, a liar and a plain fake. The effect, as one paper put it, was "as if someone charged that Nelson knew nothing about the sea." "Is this the end of a legend?" asked a sign printed in scarlet letters in the window of Foyle's, London's leading bookstore. In press, radio...