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How to be an imposter

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Presented are comical takes on ways to hone skills for pretending to be anybody but yourself. Ideas are thrown out for ways to fake being a gear head, ways to fake being an art connoisseur, to fake being a bird-watcher as well as ways to get away with proclaiming to be a great chef.

Author: Magliozzi, Ray, Magliozzi, Tom, Hoving, Thomas, McKown, Matthew, Batali, Mario
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
United States, Behavior, Portrayals, Swindlers and swindling, Swindlers, Swindling, Impostors and imposture, Impostors

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Portrait of a marriage

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Washington Post Co Chmn and CEO Katherine Graham inherited the firm from her father and ran it with her husband Phil until his death in 1963. Graham is one of the most influential and wealthy women in the world. Her relationship with Phil is profiled.

Author: Felsenthal, Carol
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Vanity Fair
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0733-8899
Year: 1993
Newspapers, Periodicals, Officials and employees, History, Washington Post Co., Washington Post (Newspaper), Graham, Katharine, Graham, Phil

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A marriage in trouble

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Paolo Veronese's famous painting was seriously damaged after it was returned to the Louvre following a three-year cleaning job on the canvas. The work weighs 1 and 1/2 tons and measures 32 1/2-by-22 feet.

Author: Hoving, Thomas
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Vanity Fair
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0733-8899
Year: 1992
Accidents, Musee du Louvre, Works, Art, Renaissance, Renaissance art, Veronese, Paolo

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