Period might be the quintessential score to this flim-flam moment.
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The AP charade was chump change compared to the FBI's next media flim-flam.
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But Huckabee and company are relatively amateur and benign flim-flam men compared to their successor.
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But with so much flim-flam coming this rapidly, it's hard for news anchors to keep up.
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"We have received lots of solicitations, but much of it has been flim-flam, scamming, or otherwise fallen through," said Kelly.
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He's now unmasked for what he really is: a flim-flam artist who lies, makes threats and talks tough, but can't deliver.
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" He added that he believes it would be a mistake to fire Mueller, but said the "the basis of his investigation is flim-flam.
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"I think it would be a mistake to fire Mueller, but I also think the basis of his investigation is flim-flam," he said.
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I try to be a good person, so I'm not going to let them throw me off my game because they're flim-flam men.
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In a country long used to fibbing candidates and policy platforms constructed out of flim-flam and magic money, Mr Trump breaks new ground.
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A president who can't even follow his own flim-flam narratives naturally also can't track important policy debates or speak clearly about underlying concepts.
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By giving weighty intellectual backing to the White House's agenda, it can convince people like your blogger that the president's policies are more than just flim-flam.
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If there isn't some secret connection to those sickly sweet caramel candies, then it's just the futuristic flourish of a flim-flam man who flew too close to the sun.
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I know this isn't really helpful to those of you who have or wish to buy the device when it drops on Tuesday, but don't worry, I can save you all of that flim flam.
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Guaranteeing health care for all, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and providing tuition-free college were, at best, empty promises with no hope of success and, at worst, they were deliberate flim-flam.
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Or the flim-flam career developer and failed casino operator who brags about grabbing women by their genitals and is now accused by two women of having an extramarital affair with them at the same time?
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This is not in any way true, but in the era of the Bullshitter in chief in the White House it's natural that the flim-flam style of argumentation would come to increasingly dominate the entire conservative firmament.
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Depp has frequently been accused of creating characters who are all outside flim-flam, with no soul, but his best work (including his first few Jack Sparrow performances) unites the outer shell with something bruised at the character's core.
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After all, if you are taught to believe that the reigning scientific consensuses on evolution and climate change are lies, then you will lack the elementary logical skills that will set your alarm bells ringing when you hear a flim-flam artist like Trump.
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And it's worth noting that while the DBCFT failed because of a toxic brew of interest-group politics and partisanship, the rest of this stuff didn't happen because, despite the breathless coverage from credulous journalists, the Roadmap was flim-flam from beginning to end.
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For most hardcore fight fans, a return to business as usual will be welcome, but the way that this fight—which makes no real sense whatsoever—has caught the public attention proves that we still very much live in the age of flim-flam, ballyhoo, and spectacle.
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The ferry appeared in background scenes of the 1967 Irvin Kershner film The Flim-Flam Man.
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The movie's title song "Flim Flam Man," written by Laura Nyro, later became a hit for Barbra Streisand.
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Thomas Y. Crowell. pp. 105-106. Randi, James. (1982). Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions. Prometheus Books.
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It is above all serious, and tries to stay away from the flim-flam of artworld tourism and junketing.
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The award was originally called the Uri trophy, after Uri Geller, and was first announced in the appendix of Randi's book Flim-Flam!. The 1982 edition lists the award's "recipients" in 1979, 1980 and 1981. In Flim-Flam!, Randi states: The bent spoon trophy is a reference to Geller's claimed spoon-bending abilities.
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Blinks and Flim Flam were the leading horse-rider pair on the United States' silver medal dressage team at the 2002 World Equestrian Games, topping their 1998 win. After his retirement in the summer of 2004, Flim Flam was relaxing in a field when he showed signs of colic. After his condition was noticed, he was taken to the Palm Beach Equine in Wellington, Florida. Flim Flam died October 28, 2004, of complications arising from colic surgery; his stomach burst, causing him to be euthanized on the operating table.
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It's not just a bit of showroom flim-flam to fleece the Mondeo man who fantasises about getting the red-carpet treatment.
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It's not just a bit of showroom flim-flam to fleece the Mondeo man who fantasises about getting the red carpet treatment.
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Flim Flam was foaled in 1987, out of Cilia and by Wilhelm Tell I. He was a dark bay who stood at maturity. Flim Flam began training with rider Sue Blinks at two and a half years old. He was owned by Fritz Kundrun and Renate Kundrun, who bought him initially hoping he could be an approved Hanoverian breeding stallion as well as a dressage hopeful. However, after he placed third at the Bundeschampionate, Kundrun realized the horse could not be successful in dressage as a stallion, so Flim Flam was castrated and went on to succeed as a dressage horse.
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The horse was listed as being in the top half- dozen Grand Prix level dressage horses competing at the time. Flim Flam competed for the United States in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia with Blinks, winning 8th individually and taking the bronze team medal with fellow members Robert Dover, Guenter Seidel, and Christine Traurig. Jane Savoie was credited with coaching the pair; She had helped Blinks with Flim Flam since he was three years old. In 2001, Flim Flam won first place in the Dressage Special and second place in the Grand Prix dressage competition at the Devon Horse Show.
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Flim Flam (March 27, 1987-October 28, 2004) was a Hanoverian dressage horse who, along with rider Sue Blinks, competed for the United States at the 2000 Olympics. The pair was eighth in the individual competition and was part of the bronze medal-winning US team. Flim Flam was sired by the stallion Wilhelm Tell I, out of the mare, Cilia.
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For telepathy, see for example, Randi, James. Flim- Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions. Prometheus Books (June 1982) or Charpak, Georges and Henri Broch.
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Chapter Off the Deep End in Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions. Prometheus Books. The physicist John Taylor gave The Metal Benders (1981) a negative review.
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She, Fred, and Flim-Flam are once again pursued by the phantom car but are able to evade capture with the Misstery Machine's upgrades installed. Daphne, Shaggy, and Scooby infiltrate the castle to help Van Ghoul and reunite with Flim-Flam, Velma, and Fred. They find Van Ghoul defeated. He reveals that Asmodeus is the demon form of his magically powerful ancestor Asomad Van Ghoul and thus blames the impending doom on himself.
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In 1958, the Circus company in Los Angeles published and distributed five reproductions of mounted 8x10 inch paintings. The paintings included the clowns Dilly, Flim, Flam, Helter and Skelter.Portraits of clowns [graphic]. 5 reproductions of paintings ; mounted 8 x 10 in.
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Lugg, A. (1987). Bunkum, Flim-Flam and Quackery: Pseudoscience as a Philosophical Problem. Dialectica, 41(3), 221-230. Some psychotherapists and psychologists practicing various kinds of Body Psychotherapy and Somatic Psychology have continued to use Reich's proposed emotional-release methods and character-analysis ideas.
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The Flim-Flam Man (titled One Born Every Minute in some countries) is a 1967 American comedy film directed by Irvin Kershner, featuring George C. Scott, Michael Sarrazin, and Sue Lyon, based on the 1965 novel The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man by Guy Owen. The movie has well-known character actors in supporting roles, including Jack Albertson, Slim Pickens, Strother Martin, Harry Morgan, and Albert Salmi. The movie is set in the countryside and small towns of the American South, and it was filmed in the Anderson County, Kentucky, area. It is also noted for its folksy musical score by composer Jerry Goldsmith.
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The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man follows the comic adventures of an aging confidence man and his young AWOL sidekick in a thinly fictionalized Bladen County. Mordecai Jones and the guitar playing Curley Treadaway were to become two of Owen's favorite characters. The book was made into a movie in 1967 (The Flim-Flam Man) starring George C. Scott and Michael Sarrazin, and the characters reappeared in two more books to "con" the greedy and gullible who only get what they deserve. The 1970 novel Journey for Joedel won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for best work of fiction by a North Carolinian.
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As a young man, Rodriguez worked under the stage name "Roudy" as an assistant to magician James Randi.The Faith Healers, by James Randi, Prometheus Books; 2nd edition (1989) p. 133.Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions, by James Randi. Prometheus Books (June 1982) , pp.
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During the 1980s, the Goldsmiths Tavern hosted alternative cabaret nights, organised by Nikky Smedley. Playing host to fledgling acts including The Cholmondeleys, Julian Clary and Vic Reeves. Goldsmiths' Students' Union also had a reputation for putting on established and up and coming bands of the era including The B-52's, The Pogues, The Monochrome Set, Simply Red, Wet Wet Wet and Wild Willy Barrett.. The Irish owners of the Harp Club let The Flim Flam run a regular Friday night club there. The Flim Flam, with their wide music interest, recruited two DJs from Goldsmiths (Allison Webster and Mimi Kerns) to put on a punk and indie night on Saturdays A Million Rubber Bands (later "Totally Wired").
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Flim Flam, 37. He died in Houston, Texas,Houston Chronicle February 22, 1998 Section A, Page 33 He was survived by his wife, Mary; sons Morgan and John; grandchildren William, Alexandra, Elizabeth, George, Charlotte, and Mary Catherine. He was preceded in death by his son, Philip deMarigny.Houston Chronicle, January 30, 1998, 26A.
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Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions is a 1980 book by magician and skeptic James Randi about paranormal, occult, and pseudoscience claims. The foreword is by science fiction author Isaac Asimov. Randi explores topics which he says that scientists and the media are too willing to promote without skepticism and proper expertise.
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Popoff refused to comment. "Flim flam is his profession," Randi explained to reporter Matt Meaghan. "That's what he does best. He's very good at it, and naturally he's going to go back to it." In May 2007, ABC's 20/20 focused on Popoff's comeback and explored the lives of a few people who felt cheated.
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Flim Flam's first major international competition was in 1998, at the World Equestrian Games in Rome. He and rider Sue Blinks finished 12th individually and 4th as part of the US team. In 2000, Flim Flam and Blinks won the US Equestrian Team National Grand Prix Championship. It was stated that he could quietly "steal" the show.
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Pratkanis is an amateur magician and a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians and the Society of American Magicians. He uses magic tricks such as cold reading and levitation in his course, The Social Psychology of Flim Flam, as an effective way to teach critical thinking; proving to his students that even their college professor can fool them.
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Flim-Flam! specifies that the winner of the Pigasus Award falls in one of four possible categories: # The scientist who said or did the silliest thing relating to parapsychology in the preceding twelve months. # The funding organization that supports the most useless parapsychological study during the year. # The media outlet that reported as fact the most outrageous paranormal claim.
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Scott returned to Broadway in 1967 to direct Dr. Cook's Garden by Ira Levin but quit during tryouts. As an actor, he appeared in a revival of The Little Foxes (1967–68) directed by Mike Nichols, which ran for 100 performances. Scott starred in The Flim-Flam Man (1967) and Petulia (1968). He appeared in the made for television movie Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall (1969).
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She played a mission worker in 7 Women (1965), director John Ford's last feature film. Lyon played the female lead in the comedy The Flim-Flam Man (1967) and had a supporting role in Tony Rome (1967), which starred Frank Sinatra. She played the wife of daredevil Evel Knievel in the film Evel Knievel (1971).Evel Knievel : Press Kit, Cast, Crew, Synopsis, Movie Posters, onesheetindex.
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It peaked at #97 on the Billboard 200, then known as the Pop Albums chart. Starting with this release the song "Hands Off the Man" was retitled "Flim Flam Man (Hands Off the Man)". Columbia Records re-issued The First Songs with all-new cover art (featuring a rose illustration) in 1973. In 1999, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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Most of the small-town scenes in the movie Elizabethtown (2005) were filmed in Versailles. It was also the setting of the movie Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005). The cemetery scene in the film Secretariat (2010), about one of Kentucky's major race and stud horses, was filmed at Pisgah Pike Church. The Flim-Flam Man (1967) was filmed at several locations near Versailles.
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" Dave Langford reviewed Flim-Flam! for White Dwarf #43, and stated that "Always he thrusts before your nose the parts of the story which believers' books omit: even if inclined towards the loony, I mean the uncritical viewpoint, you should consult these books for the devil's advocate arguments. They are important. In a world where an ounce of sensationalism sells better than a ton of rationality any day, they are very important.
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In his later film career, he appeared in Inherit the Wind (1960), How the West Was Won (1962) (as Ulysses S. Grant), John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965), Frankie and Johnny (1966), The Flim-Flam Man (1967), Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), Support Your Local Gunfighter! (1971), Snowball Express (1972), The Shootist (1976), The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979), and as Captain Gannon in the film version of Dragnet (1987) with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks.
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He gained a contract with Universal Studios. His early appearances include episodes of The Virginian (1965) and Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as well as the TV film The Doomsday Flight (1966) and the feature Gunfight in Abilene (1967). 20th Century Fox borrowed him for a starring role in The Flim- Flam Man (1967) with George C. Scott. Universal then co-starred him against Anthony Franciosa in A Man Called Gannon (1968) and James Caan in Journey to Shiloh (1968).
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" Jack Kirwan writing in the National Review embraced the tone of the book describing the writing as "a juicy knock-'em-down style" and stating, "Randi takes on the heavies of the paranormal scene - von Däniken, UFOs, Uri Geller, TM - and feeds them into the meat grinder of critical investigation." The San Francisco Chronicle stated, "Flim-Flam! is an excellent overview of paranormal claims that analyzes medical humbugs, psychic photography, Transcendental Meditation, ancient astronauts, UFOs, etc. Plentiful photographs catch hoaxers in the act.
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He is currently working on A Magician in the Laboratory, which recounts his application of skepticism to science. He was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of his good friend Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers, the Black Widowers.Asimov 1994 Other books are Flim-Flam! (1982), The Faith Healers (1987), James Randi, Psychic Investigator (1991), Test Your ESP Potential (1982) and An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (1995).
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Skaterdater had been made for $17,000 and sold to United Artists for $50,000, winning the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, and being nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Film. Turman described the novel as "a hip horror story about today's alienated youth." Black said it was about "a Walter Mitty type who comes up against a teenybopper Lady Macbeth." Turman had just made The Flim Flam Man for 20th Century Fox and obtained finance from the same studio.
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Phillip Wilcher's has composed over 100 works for solo piano, pieces for soloist and piano as well as chamber ensembles. His music was described by The Sydney Morning Heralds Steve Dow as "an eclectic mix of classical and flim-flam". Wilcher's compositions are influenced by Chopin and J.S. Bach, and some of his works are notable for their use of Eastern scales, such as his Six Etudes, which uses Chinese and Japanese scales. He has composed music for pianist Aaron McMillan, and for musician and former ABC broadcaster, news reader and journalist, Clive Robertson.
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"Stoney End", composed by Laura Nyro, was released in the US as a single and charted at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart and also reached number 27 on the UK singles chart. "Time and Love" reached Number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 3 on the AC Chart. "Hands Off the Man", the final single, was officially titled "Flim Flam Man" (and backed with "Maybe"). It spent 5 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at 82.
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Daphne, Van Ghoul, Scooby, and Shaggy tail him but are attacked by the phantom car again which uses its revving engine to create an avalanche. Vincent finds he is unable to use his magic and the four crash into a temple. Meanwhile, Fred and Velma search a seemingly abandoned post office and unknowingly meet an adult Flim-Flam who tries to sell them Chest of Demons merchandise and ghost-catching equipment. They leave but are snatched up by something even Velma can't explain and she comes to the conclusion that it must have been real ghosts.
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Meadows Games was a developer and manufacturer of coin-operated video games established by Harry Kurek as a subsidiary of his contract manufacturing company, Meadows Manufacturing, in 1974. Kurek established the company because he felt the economy of the United States was headed into a recession and he wanted to enter a business he felt would be "recession proof." The company scored a major hit with its 1974 release Flim-Flam, a cocktail-table ball-and- paddle game that sold over 12,000 units. Subsequent games were not as successful, and Kurek sold the company to Holosonics in 1978.
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The ‘dreambody’ concept was developed in the 1970s while Mindell was a practicing Jungian analyst, derived from his observation of connections between people's dreams and their body symptoms and published in Dreambody: the Body's Role in Revealing the Self (Routledge, 1982). Mindell's therapeutic technique has been compared to Fritz Perls: “The most striking difference, at least from Perls himself, is one of mood – Mindell's work is playful, supportive and permissive rather than confrontational.” Another commentator writes: “Mindell … exemplifies both the good and bad of contemporary dreamwork. On the first score: there is a bit of flim-flam about Mindell.
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Jerry Goldsmith, Best Original Score – Motion Picture nominations and wins at the Golden Globe Awards. Retrieved 2011-02-18. During this time, he also composed for many lighter, comedic films such as the family comedy The Trouble with Angels (1966), the James Bond parodies Our Man Flint (1966) and its sequel In Like Flint (1967), and the comedy The Flim-Flam Man (1967). In 1968, Goldsmith caught massive critical attention with his landmark, controversial soundtrack to the post-apocalyptic science fiction epic Planet of the Apes, which was one of the first film scores to be written entirely in an Avant garde style.
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1985 saw the debut of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, which featured Daphne, Shaggy, Scooby, Scrappy, and new characters Flim-Flam (voiced by Susan Blu) and Vincent Van Ghoul (based upon and voiced by Vincent Price) traveling the globe to capture "thirteen of the most terrifying ghosts upon the face of the earth." The final first-run episode of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo aired in December 1985, and after its reruns were removed from the ABC lineup the following March, no new Scooby series aired on the network for the next two years.
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Norwood Pratt has just finished his enlistment in the United States Marine Corps and is on his way home from Vietnam. A musician, his one great ambition is to appear on the radio program Louisiana Hayride. Along the way, Norwood meets a variety of characters, including Grady Fling, a flim-flam man; Yvonne Phillips, a hooker; Marie, a jaded would-be starlet; and his Marine buddy Joe William Reese. However, the most important person that he meets is Rita Lee Chipman, the "right kind of girl," who is unfortunately an unwed soon-to-be mother at a time when this was uncommon and somewhat shameful.
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The band was formed in 1984, by Johny Brown in New Cross, South London. Early experiments revolved around cheap junk shop instrumentation and rudimentary electronics. After two self-issued cassettes, they signed to South London indie label Flim Flam for a string of singles and two 1987 albums; More Tales From The City and the live LP When Stars Come Out To Play. The band reached a commercial and critical peak after signing to Rough Trade, with Manic, Magic, Majestic in 1989, and Positively Spooked in 1990, supported by a tour of the U.S.S.R. The label was forced into receivership in 1991 following cash flow problems and eventual bankruptcy.
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236) were overturned by the Appeals Board, which includes both a Catholic and Protestant clergyman.Rockett 2004, p.72 The Censorship of Films Acts apply only to cinema films; the Video Recordings Act 1989 did not include blasphemy as grounds for prohibition, but does include "incitement of religious hatred" as grounds for censorship or an outright ban (refusal of certification).§3 Certification of video works. Video Recordings Act 1989; Irish Statute Book In September 2016, reports that the lack of an Irish release for My Scientology Movie was due to the blasphemy laws were dismissed by The Irish Times as media flim-flam; Neville Cox said the laws were "of no relevance" to the situation.
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Pratkanis commenced his teaching career at Carnegie Mellon University in 1984 where he taught courses in advertising and, human behaviour. In 1987 he moved to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he took up the position of Professor in the Psychology Department of the Social Services Division where he teaches four courses - Introduction to Social Psychology, Social Influence, Social Psychology of Autocracy and Democracy, and Social Psychology of Flim Flam. Pratkanis received the UCSC Excellence in Teaching Award for his courses Social Influence and Social Psychology, and was named the Psychology Class of 2005 Most Revered Professor. Outside of the University, Pratkanis presented lectures on social influence at skeptical conferences including SkeptiCal, CSICon, and the Skeptic's Toolbox.
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In 1988, Jaroff wrote an article for Time called "Fighting Against Flim Flam." The article featured magician James Randi and his ability to set up double-blind experiments and, through his understanding of the art of deception, expose "psychics, astrologers, spiritualists, channelers, faith healers, and a host of mystics and charlatans". Jaroff had been investigating Uri Geller, a man who claimed to be able to project energy "by sheer mind power" and "cause an electron beam to be diverted, cause objects to levitate, and cause metallic objects to bend." Even after Geller was exposed as a fraud by professors from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jaroff observed that Geller's popularity in the United States had continued to rise.
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" Kirkus Reviews states Flim Flam! has a brisk pace and clear message. They were also critical of Randi's "abrasive style" but state that after, "Randi has set forth the shameless frauds and money-making schemes, the outrageous misstatements and falsifications of data in respected scientific journals, the righteous harangue seems warranted." The magazine describes the anecdotes about cases Randi was involved in as a judge or expert as absorbing and states they go far to make the point, "if you design the experiment adequately, no extraordinary powers are demonstrated." concluding, "By the end of the book, Randi's personal offer of $10,000 to be paid to anyone who successfully demonstrates paranormal abilities under proper test conditions seems safe beyond a doubt.
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Virgin, 2000, p. 244. (Google Books preview) is a British electronic music DJ and producer. Mackintosh was a member of M/A/R/R/S and a DJ at Ministry of Sound in the 1990s, in addition to doing production and remix work from the 1980s onward. Mackintosh was raised in London, where he DJed on a sound system he had put together with his brother, who was also a DJ.C.J. Mackintosh at Allmusic He held a regular gig at London's Flim Flam Club (run by Jonathan More of Coldcut)CJ Mackintosh at Resident Advisor before being hired by Serious Records to put together compilation mixes, and in 1987 he participated in the DMC World Mixing Championships, winning the UK bracket.
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While Bart and all of the series' recurring characters join forces to energetically flim-flam the banker ("....if you can't trust your banker, who can you trust?"), Bret sits whittling in a rocking chair across the street from the bank every day, responding to the amused and patronizing queries of the local townspeople curious about how he plans to recover his money, "I'm working on it." "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" was generally the first episode that Garner mentioned in interviews. The episode is also the only one featuring brief appearances by all of the series' early semi-regular recurring characters, including Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as Dandy Jim Buckley, Diane Brewster as Samantha Crawford, Leo Gordon as Big Mike McComb, Richard Long as Gentleman Jack Darby, and Arlene Howell as Cindy Lou Brown.
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He further suggested that part of Morrissey's appeal was that he conveyed the image of a "cultivated English gentleman (and being every inch the typically English 'gent' he is perfectly representative of that type's loathing for cant and hypocrisy, and his fragile, quasi-gay sexuality)". Similarly, Morrissey biographer David Bret described him as being "quintessentially English", while Simpson termed him a Little Englander. During the 1980s, interviewer Paul Morley stated that Morrissey "sets out to be a decent man and he succeeds because that is what he is". Eddie Sanderson, who interviewed Morrissey for The Mail on Sunday in 1992, said that "underneath all the rock star flim-flam, Morrissey is actually a very nice chap, excellent company, perfectly willing and able to talk about any subject one cared to throw at him".
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" Oliver Keens of Time Out London called the album's handling of the drones subject matter "tactless and crass" and its story "as dull as dog food – told with the wishy-washy flim-flam of a frothing conspiracy theorist ... We used to moan that musicians didn't write about politics anymore. Based on this effort, maybe that's for the best." Rolling Stone named it the 38th best album of 2015, calling it a "searing commentary on our era's vague dread, computer-driven death from above and Orwellian political climate ... It was the year's most convincing howl from the abyss.". The Daily Telegraph wrote that "It's more than a little Spinal Tap, but if I was a teenage boy this is exactly the kind of thrilling madness that might turn me on to a moribund genre.
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Since he has released a series of introspective solo acoustic albums Long Way North (2008), Portraits (2010) and About A Time (2013) until the 2014 Fender Telecaster group based psychedelic garage rock of The World of The Wooltones. All these recordings were released on Staff Only Records with 'less is more' producer Fran Ashcroft at the controls. Of these, first album Long Way North was described by the Liverpool Echo as 'simple songs sung simply with a melodious voice... No flim flam, no camouflage, no recording studio tricks, just the music and the voice – doing what so many recording artists are too cowardly to do for fear of showing their vulnerabilities. This album rather shows Rob Clarke's strengths, his warm voice and sensitive musicality, coupled with memorable songs that somehow evoke the spirit of Liverpool, and will touch the heart of many, particularly the title track Long Way North'.
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