Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...level in the baby-shower episode. The visiting TV newswomen do surprisingly well in their cameo appearances, delivering quips about such things as balancing career and motherhood. (Says Williams: "I once asked Garrick Utley if he had to make a boom-boom.") But the encounter simply lends a bogus aura of credibility to a show that seems phony at its soul. And why do all the guests at the shower come from the soft-news world of morning TV? Apparently, the hard-news reporters whom Murphy is really modeled after -- Diane Sawyer, Lesley Stahl -- were too busy doing real work...
After flunking their lie-detector tests, both were sent on a bogus errand by Pan Am to London, where it was assumed they would be arrested. But British authorities refused to even interrogate the pair. According to Leppard, Tuzcu and O'Neill were simply "scapegoats" and were never "considered serious suspects." They returned to Frankfurt that same night...
...well-hung pheasant. It is everywhere in his work. You see it in the smearily defiant look and plunging neckline of La Goulue barging into the Moulin Rouge on the arms of her two women companions; in the arrogant set of Aristide Bruant's head above the bogus worker's costume he wore to perform his argot songs. It is written all over the seamed face and pouched eyes of the English tourist who has just accosted a pair of girls in the Moulin Rouge and is making a none-too-silken proposition to one of them, who recoils slightly...
...bogus nature of Tech Squares' reputedyouth doesn't really matter. You can hang aroundHarvard if all you want is bright-eyed and bushytailed...
...equating the mayor with King is as bogus as comparing Donaldson to Bull Connor. The straightforward moral choices that Birmingham faced in King's day are not a reliable guide to sorting out the ambiguities posed by the Arrington affair. Back then, racist bombing attacks were so common that the city's best black neighborhood was nicknamed "Dynamite Hill." Parks, schools and buses were segregated, and most blacks were denied the vote. Today every legal vestige of Jim Crow has disappeared from the city, and Arrington sits in the mayor's office. The racial battleground is no longer black...