The word charade has appeared in 46 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 16 in “3 Parrots, 1 Shared Wall, 2 Ruptured Lives” by David Segal. The article describes how noise complaints in a Manhattan co-op led to a $750,000 legal settlement and shattered a friendship between Charlotte Kullen and Meril Lesser.
To Ms. Lesser, the noise crisis was a sinister charade, an attempt by Ms. Kullen, in collusion with others in the building, to get her evicted so Ms. Kullen could buy her home, knock down their shared wall and make one large apartment.
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