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...lawyer, disbarment can mean disaster. Last week convicted Dirty Trickster Donald Segretti started to serve his maximum-six-month sentence in Lompoc Prison Camp 45 miles northwest of Santa Barbara, Calif. Declared Lawyer Segretti plaintively: "Four months in Lompoc is nothing to me compared with being disbarred. What would...
...Clifford Irving must pass his now dusty "Con Man of the Year" award to another deserving trickster, Richard Nixon...
...film shows several of the speeches Malcolm made while he was a Black Muslim, including the one in which he said, "President Kennedy is a trickster. Black people put him in office and he's got time to take a stand in Vietnam, but not against racism." In the integrationist era of the early 1960's, Malcolm's words were anathema to the mass of blacks and their leaders. He was denounced as a "devil" and a "hate monger." After Kennedy's assassination in 1963. Malcolm said. "It's just the chickens coming home to roost," a statement with which...
...artist in swami's turban. In The Alexandria Quartet, the illusions were so masterly as to seem substance enough. In Tune, Durrell's 1968 novel, and now in its sequel, Nunquam, Durrell's virtuosity has slipped sufficiently to leave him exposed as a bit of a trickster. His hand is no longer quicker than the reader's eye, and many critics have clobbered...
Sellers, the Melancholy Matador, sometimes gets a laugh. But after he loses the girl, he bumps gracelessly from parody into pathos. Sellers just doesn't belong to the Chaplin tradition. He's a fraudulent character like Groucho Marx, who brings a leer into every tearjerker moment. When the trickster look falls off Sellers' face, he's cooked...