In his world, all that is solid melts into flimflam.
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I suspect it is a flimflam to sell more quill pens!
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Mark Twain's fiction held a soft spot for the flimflam man.
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Books of The Times The brain is capable of remarkable flimflam.
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We know what kind of flimflam goes on in your office, buddy.
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You can scam, hustle, bilk, gyp, flimflam, swindle, swizzle, fleece and finagle.
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"They're just trying to put up a bunch of flimflam," Akerman said.
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I identified Ryan as a flimflam man more than 7 years ago.
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But thanks to the hack gap, Republicans can count on flimflam instead.
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This reputation was never deserved; his policy proposals have always been obvious flimflam.
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Flimflam and phaseout gimmicks, rather than reform and loophole closing, make it work.
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Mysterio, beneath his powers, turns out to be a kind of flimflam visual-effects wizard.
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Some of his conduct in the various frauds was bizarre even for a flimflam artist.
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His boyish enthusiasm makes you wonder if Jaap is just another victim of his own flimflam.
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The world is what it is, dog eat dog flimflam man, get rich or die trying.
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Do her outfits have the weight of art, or are they just so much biographical flimflam?
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The popularity, if that is the right word, of this flimflam is not known, but rummage around romancescam.
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" She was frequently groped and propositioned by flimflam men, but as Kenneth Silverman wrote in his book "Houdini!!!
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Even at the time, careful observers questioned whether his reputation was built more on real accomplishment or flimflam.
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Any flimflam artist can take a mark, but it takes a real genius to fool the same chumps twice.
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Though Marian (Danielle Wade) is the first to see through Hill's flimflam, it's she who ultimately saves his neck.
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A few heroic analysts (one thinks of Richard Hannah, a long-term Eurotunnel sceptic) proved adept at exposing corporate flimflam.
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Without the detour into Flimflam Land, this episode would have said little that hadn't already been said about these characters.
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The president feted his fake-news "win" in the Rose Garden, sprinkling flimflam dust to deflect from his ludicrous legislation.
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Sensibly, Ms. Brewer has sought to end the vanity flimflam with rules forcing new addresses to bear some relation to reality.
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I called him a flimflam man back in 2010, and nothing he has done since has called that judgment into question.
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President Trump's maneuver of having the investigators investigated is just the latest shameless flimflam in an attempt to discredit the Mueller investigation.
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In his Senate testimony, Mattis gamely tried to make the case that R4+S is something other than the typical Pentagon flimflam.
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Flimflam. Even, it seems, that world-renowned hall-of-fame New Yorker the Pizza Rat may have been schooled and rehearsed for the camera.
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The election still must be won on native ground, though, and all flimflam aside, Trump still faces a narrow Electoral College pathway to 469 votes.
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But it's worth cataloguing them in one place, thanks to Axios — just to remind ourselves what a money-grubbing flimflam artist this guy really is.
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An exasperated President Franklin D. Roosevelt dismissed the controversy — which died down soon after the memorial's groundbreaking — as a "flimflam game" designed to sell newspapers.
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No roach ain't never gonna run 'cross a flimflam man's plate, excepting the grifter in question's already got himself around the best part of his supper.
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Likewise, last year, her version of "The Music Man" brought out the class disparities inherent in the story without skimping on its exhilarating portrait of American flimflam.
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The fun here is in searching for potential telltale clues and fake-outs as he casually ambles his way from sleight-of-hand flimflam to pseudo-telepathic reads.
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How hilarious, I thought at the time, that The Journal should expect its reporters to understand the financial intricacies of large corporations while swallowing this kind of flimflam.
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After all, I declared Paul Ryan a "flimflam man" back when all the cool kids were gushing about his courage and honesty, giving him awards for fiscal responsibility.
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He picked up a guitar and pretended to play, and before long this bit of flimflam mutated into the formation of the Nuns, a foundational Bay Area glam-punk outfit.
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Cox's ruling, couched in dense legalese, was itself a rebuke of the deal May brokered with Brussels that had boasted of legal "instruments," reading a lot like last-minute flimflam.
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But it turned out they could just deploy some flimflam: Paul Ryan told the same lie, but amplified it by placing the words "VERIFIED" in all caps before his tweet.
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What's true of Rubio applies to the Republican Party as a whole, which by and large is sticking with Trump despite overwhelming evidence that he's a flimflam man of epic proportion.
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We can't know for sure whether Ouija was a genuine expression of spiritualist beliefs, an Egyptophilic piece of flimflam meant to capitalize on those beliefs, or a little bit of both.
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Paul Krugman called him a "flimflam man," pointing out that the numbers Ryan touted in his imaginary budget didn't add up, with the proposed tax cuts creating much bigger deficits than Ryan acknowledges.
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After Trump got trounced in the first debate, he went full anti-science, insisting that flimflam applause-o-meter polls, many from conservative websites, were in fact proof positive that he had won the debate.
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A party that acculturates itself, its base, and its media sphere to constant nonsense can hardly complain when other political entrepreneurs notice that nonsense sells and decide to begin marketing their own brand of flimflam.
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Mr Ramaphosa, who had remained silent until now, condemned Mr Zuma's flimflam excuse for the firing: an "intelligence report" alleging that Mr Gordhan's unremarkable investor road trip was part of a "plot" to overthrow the president.
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With the ex-slaves betrayed and the Indians conquered at last, an "uncommon" America emerged, characterized by neither the imperatives of creative destruction nor even simple greed as much as by extravagance, mismanagement and predatory flimflam.
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He's a brand marketer and a flimflam man who had to make a $21 million civil fraud payout about his fake university shortly before taking office and is now facing a new fraud lawsuit over his fake charity.
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A master showman and flimflam artist, Trump saw the opportunity and sold his show (and it was, and is, a show) to an angry people still tired of going-along-to-not-get-along and still demanding drastic change.
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A widely circulated blog post by a developer named Patrick McKenzie called the reveal "flimflam and hokum," pointing out that the cryptographic signature Wright used was apparently derived from a different block of text than the message it was supposedly signing.
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We are in for an epic clash between two septuagenarians who both came from wealthy New York families and attended Ivy League schools but couldn't be more different — the flamboyant flimflam man and the buttoned-down, buttoned-up boy scout.
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All that posturing about the deficit was obvious flimflam, whose purpose was to hobble a Democratic president, and it was completely predictable that the pretense of being fiscally responsible would be dropped as soon as the G.O.P. regained the White House.
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Instead, you sold the D.O.A. bill the Irish undertaker gave you as though it were a luxury condo, ignoring the fact that it was a cruel flimflam, a huge tax cut for the rich disguised as a health care bill.
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They rewrote the story of the 1920s, a period of Republican rule, as a time of corruption and dishonesty, in which the GOP allowed the flimflam men of Wall Street and the big utility companies to get away with bilking the public.
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Amid all of Mr. Bush's flimflam was a solid beef about the Kyoto agreement, namely, that while it committed the big industrial countries to making legally binding emissions reductions targets, it let developing countries — which then included China and India — off the hook.
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The idea that if you engage in enough of this low-value activity, it will somehow add up to something of high value in your career is the same dubious alchemy that forms the core of most snake oil and flimflam in business.
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Paintings like Ms. von Heyl's are especially valuable today, much more than your latest VR flimflam, for the way they solidify the immaterial flows of the image stream, and reveal to us how utterly our screens have changed our eyes and brains.
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Season 1 made Jimmy into both a sleazebag and a hero, trying to parlay the flimflam skills he picked up as a onetime street hustler (they called him Slippin' Jimmy, for a fake-accident scam he favored) into a straight career in the courtroom.
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" Wyden seconded Durbin's call, saying the Republicans' last-minute partisan process on the tax bill was "outrageous," and added that the text should be in the Senate record so the "American people can get a sense of the kind of flimflam that's going on here.
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Mr. Abili is currently working off Broadway, not in films, but he is winning praise for his portrayal of an African-American: the violent flimflam man Brutus Jones, the despot of a Caribbean island in Eugene O'Neill's drama "The Emperor Jones," at Irish Repertory Theater.
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Meanwhile, a fisking over on Github by Bitcoin sceptic Patrick Mckenzie calls Wright's claim "flimflam and hokum which stands up to a few minutes of cursory scrutiny, and demonstrates a competent sysadmin's level of familiarity with cryptographic tools, but ultimately demonstrates no non-public information about Satoshi."
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Big City On an infernal afternoon this week, hundreds of women gathered in Union Square in the name of protecting reproductive rights and in protest, implicitly, of a flimflam progressivism that allows New York to market itself to the country as a polestar of liberal sanctity.
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Carreyrou says that Silicon Valley has always had "a flimflam element" and a "fake it 'til you make it" ethos, from the early '80s, when it was selling vaporware (hardware or software that was more of a concept or work in progress than a workable reality).
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" If the Clintons are the careless Tom and Daisy Buchanan and Barack Obama is a Camus-like figure of existential estrangement and Donald Trump is a flimflam man out of "Huckleberry Finn,'' H.W. was Bertie Wooster, an airy WASP propelled to the top by the old boys' network.
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A former jazz drummer and stand-up comic who was later a writer, campus lecturer and filmmaker, Mr. Abel was best known as a perennial public gadfly, a self-appointed calling that combined the verbal pyrotechnics of a 19th-century flimflam man with acute 20th-century media savvy.
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This sphere of bullshit ultimately ends up encompassing not only flunkies like Sean Spicer and Kellyanne Conway but aides such as Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein or National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, who entered Trump's service with sterling reputations yet inevitably find themselves fronting for one form or another of flimflam.
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But, look, if -- if there was collusion, if there was something there, I think we would have had a bigger hit that these things that were done with Manafort, involved things that after a couple of -- happened -- end a couple years ago and Papadopoulos is a flimflam artist not at the center of the campaign.
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And Paul Ryan, the current but departing speaker, is a flimflam man: a fake deficit hawk whose one legislative achievement is a budget-busting tax cut, a fake policy wonk whose budget proposals were always obvious smoke and mirrors, pretending to address the budget deficit but actually just redistributing income from the poor to the rich.
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Pick your persona: He's a clown in bad makeup, a brilliant businessman with a tower on Fifth Avenue, a flimflam man who fleeces the naïve, a tell-it-like-it-is patriot, a draft dodger who abuses Gold Star parents, a beloved dad with a gaggle of adoring kids, a crass misogynist, a candidate who speaks for his abandoned and fearful countrymen, an egomaniacal and dangerous fascist, a refreshing and honest voice vs.
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Opinion Columnist The disaster in Iowa on Monday night exemplified so much about the American situation at the moment — the failure of our parties, the self-sabotage of our institutions, the disastrous interaction between creaking political systems and the flimflam "improvements" of the tech economy — that it's tempting not to attempt political analysis at all and just let the thing stand as a kind of outrageous art installation, a fiasco that speaks for itself so completely that all commentary is superfluous.
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James Randi often writes on the issue of fraud by psychics and faith healers.Fighting Against Flimflam , TIME, Jun. 24, 2001 Unqualified medical practice and alternative medicine can result in serious injury and death. Skeptical activist Tim Farley, who aims to create catalogue of harmful pseudoscientific practices and cases of damage caused by them, estimates documented number of killed or injured to be more than 600.000.
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The idea of making Nuts! came to Lane in 2009 when she read Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock. She found herself wondering if Brinkley's goat testicle cure worked, a question others asked her as she recounted the story. That current-day people could still be credulous, disappointed even, when she told them it was a "total quack cure" intrigued her.
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The National Police Gazette coined the term "confidence game" a few weeks after Houston first used the name "confidence man". A confidence trick is also known as a con game, a con, a scam, a grift, a hustle, a bunko (or bunco), a swindle, a flimflam, a gaffle, or a bamboozle. The intended victims are known as marks, suckers, stooges, mugs, rubes, or gulls (from the word gullible). When accomplices are employed, they are known as shills.
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'Flimflam,' said one." Time correspondent Sandra Burton wrote, "Seasoned observers believed from the start that the attack had been staged. Years later, as he was in the midst of his own revolt from the Marcos regime, Enrile would confirm those suspicions." Oscar Lopez, a resident of the private subdivision where the incident occurred, narrated that on the night of the incident, his driver "happened to be bringing our car into our driveway at around that time, so he saw the whole thing.
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The account is taken from official jerseys sales across the globe, not just in England. On 9 March 2006, Rooney signed the largest sports book deal in publishing history with HarperCollins, who granted him a £5 million advance plus royalties for a minimum of five books to be published over a 12-year period. The first, My Story So Far, an autobiography ghostwritten by Hunter Davies, was published after the 2006 World Cup.We want footie, not flimflam The Observer, 30 July 2006 The second publication, The Official Wayne Rooney Annual, was aimed at the teenage market and edited by football journalist Chris Hunt.
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In a New York Times op-ed, Fried wrote that descriptions of the bill as the most important civil rights legislation in a quarter-century were "...a public relations flimflam perpetrated by a cabal of overzealous civil rights plaintiffs' lawyers." He concluded by saying that Bush should "...veto this bill in its present form." On October 22, 1990, President Bush vetoed the bill, claiming that it "employs a maze of highly legalistic language to introduce the destructive force of quotas into our national employment system." The Bush administration argued that the bill's provisions were strict enough that they would give employers "powerful incentives" to adopt quotas.
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Julie Benson (Jane Russell) and Nick Cochran (Robert Mitchum), "crackling magnetism"Baxter, 1971. p. 167 Critic Bosley Crowther, writing for The New York Times in 1952, lambasted the characters as "flimflam" and the story "pedestrian", despite some "well-placed direction by Josef von Sternberg in a couple of scenes." Film historian Andrew Sarris in his appraisal of Sternberg's films for Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), deplores Macao as a series of "visual coups" assembled "to conceal the meaninglessness of the [on-screen] action ..." Whereas Sarris praises the majority of Sternberg's films "for their unity of form and function", Macao proves "how superficial mere style can be."Sarris, 1966.
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When it became clear that 1340's license was doomed, Eaton opted to sacrifice the Spanish-language programming that had been airing at 100.3 FM to move WOOK's intellectual unit there. On December 24, 1976, WOOK became WFAN and the FM station became WOOK. Attorneys for Washington Community Broadcasting, the group set to take over the 1340 frequency, called the switch a "flimflam" and rued it was out of their control. However, as April 22, 1978—the final day of broadcasting for the WFAN license—loomed, Hispanic leaders in metropolitan Washington were left to evaluate their options; they attempted to purchase WGTB, which Georgetown University was selling at the time, but the University of the District of Columbia acquired the station, rendering the backup offer from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington—which would have run the station as a Spanish-language outlet—moot.
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