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The lyrics are the usual--drugs, grim humor, self-hatred, sci-fi sex--but Manson is "no longer instantly dismissible as scam artist or sight gag" (Jim Farber, Daily News ). (Check out audio and video clips from the album.)
Set in Cuba during the Spanish-American war, the novel is part Western (the main character, Ben Tyler, is an Arizona cowboy) and part noir (he's in on an arms-smuggling scam gone bad).
So, too, when halfway through a report on cases of fraud, a local Consumer Affairs reporter for NBC News, Ursula Lipari, said, This was obviously a sham, some listeners knew that scam was the word she should have used.
Let me out of the cursed scam now, and I'll forfeit every penny I've contributed thus far.
The scam involved phony storefront medical supply businesses being reimbursed by the state for providing supplies that never were purchased for patients who didn't exist.