Barnum disguised as a real estate developer rather than the circus huckster he truly is.

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High drama rarely descends on the banal business of housewares, but it does when the business is run by a driven huckster like Joseph Galli Jr.

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Above all, Hubbard was an irrepressible huckster--a morale-booster long before Dale Carnegie, a seller of ideas and goods when Madison Avenue was an address for mansions like J.

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Jack Black, rather restrained, is the reckless huckster moviemaker Denham, and Adrien Brody is the nominal hero, though he actually receives less affection from Watts than the ape does.

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Anything labeled a " must-have" from a security company that we've never heard of is flips on our huckster radars, and a new startup called Atomynet purports to sell its new "Mighty Key" portable security solution.

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So the full frontal assault on ringtone huckster purveyor Jamster is shifting into high-gear, at least in the UK, where joyous British citizens will no longer be subjected to those awful Crazy Frog jingles until after 9 P.

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She has a sense of humor about herself and her own cheery disposition, and she in fact knows Oscar is just a huckster of trickery but tells him point blank she has to make use of what she has to work with.

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