Word: ruses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...part of this outing at the darkest moment of the 36-day postelection battle with Al Gore is almost a country-boy ruse. Of course he wants us to see him here. This ranch, which he bought just a year ago, is a rich Texas symbol of achievement--what kids from the Midland dream of having. And it wasn't handed down. That ranch is all that he sees himself to be: rugged, real and thoroughly Texan. But Bush's persona at the ranch is also more than an act. He seems at peace in this place where he knows...
...SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY Nonswimming, battered wife Julia Roberts fakes her own death by drowning to escape her sadistic husband. Months later, the widower runs into a woman from Roberts' (secret) swimming lessons. He understands the ruse, tracks her down in her lovely, landlocked new life and tries to kill her. The moral? Swimming lessons = death...
...Ring Tricks. Jon wanted his proposal to be a surprise, so he had to invent a ruse to steal one of Jill's rings long enough to compare it to his pinky, then return it before she noticed. Since Jon, the perfect gentleman, had already asked Jill's family's permission for her hand in marriage, he was able to have Jill's grandmother's diamond reset in a new engagement ring for Jill...
...other members, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the renovation excuse is merely a ruse to close the club to its undergraduate members until the end of the year...
Four months later, on Christmas Eve, the detectives repeated their stakeout, this time hiding a bug in a fake tombstone fashioned by a movie special-effects company. But the ruse failed when reporters and cameramen overran the site, and a youngster discovered the bogus marker, rocking it back and forth and loudly announcing, "This is made of wood...