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By James Thurber The New Yorker, December 24 , 1927P. 7 Street corner salesmen, ostensibly showing a card trick, is really selling "art pictures from France".

Mr. Cusack provided the author Seymour M. Hersh with documents ostensibly showing that President Kennedy had set up a trust for Monroe's mother to buy her daughter's silence about an affair.

Even movies ostensibly showing corruption and criminality in the heart of the CIA and the Pentagon have to end on a nationalistic note, with a tiny group of clean, upstanding American liberals saving democracy.

Martin Lindstrom ("Inhaling Fear," Op-Ed, Dec. 12) stakes very large claims on one brain-imaging study ostensibly showing that graphic negative images could encourage smokers to light up.

Foodieism is a natural hobby for first-world professionals, ostensibly showing an interest in the world, but referring back to domination and the perfection of the enriched, physical self.

The main screen is a constantly shifting set of app conveyor belts ostensibly showing off what's new, what's popular, and so on.

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After all, events would have ostensibly shown, the Americans had proved unable to protect their own sporting events against the Chechens.

The foundation has filed documents obtained by Mr. Klein that ostensibly show detailed technical information on N.S.A. technology used to divert Internet data.

The series in question is "Moonshiners," a new entrant on the Discovery Channel that ostensibly shows people in rural Virginia who make their own alcohol and the state agents who pursue them.

The early script, which was markedly similar to the final Eastwood film, was accompanied by an option agreement that ostensibly showed it already existed when Mr. Brooks was still a young ballplayer.

While unemployment was ostensibly shown to be falling, tens of thousands were shunted on to incapacity benefit – by design rather than by accident – which doubled to represent more than a fifth of all 16 to 64-year-olds.

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