Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accounting firm Price Waterhouse that called the fraud "one of the most complex deceptions in banking history." Price Waterhouse found that the bank had routinely siphoned funds from deposits and created fictitious loans to generate phony profits. But such practices only created an insatiable demand for more bogus transactions...
...hated the bogus mysticism that clung to interpretations of American art in the '50s -- the cult of the heroic personality, of expressive blood and guts, of the Artist as Fate-Defying Existentialist. "My painting represents the victory of the forces of light and peace over the powers of darkness and evil," Picasso had pompously announced in 1957. Well, fine, wrote Reinhardt, but "my painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil." How he would have loathed the market-and- genius cultism of the '80s! He defined...
...steal music by taping radio and TV broadcasts, sneaking portable recorders into live concerts, surreptitiously tapping into studio mixing boards or even bribing studio executives. Once the pirates have their booty, they pay legitimate CD manufacturers to produce discs from the master tapes, which are often labeled with a bogus name to escape detection. Most bootleg CDs are made in Germany, Italy and Eastern Europe, where lax regulation and sketchy copyright laws make enforcement difficult. The illicit CDs are then smuggled into the U.S., where they are sold for prices ranging from...
...hour in length, they are produced entirely by an advertiser whose goal is to get viewers to reach for the phone and dial that ever present 800 number. In order to make these pitches seem like actual shows worth watching, they feature bright-eyed hosts, enthusiastic studio audiences and bogus names like Incredible Breakthroughs and Amazing Discoveries. They are increasingly populated with celebrities. Victoria Principal, Ali MacGraw, John Ritter, Art Linkletter, Fran Tarkenton, Meredith Baxter and Cathy Lee Crosby are among the stars who moonlight as salespeople in the wee hours...
Even critics of the Warren Commission find fault with Stone's version of events. Harold Weisberg, author of Whitewash, one of the earliest attacks on the Warren Report, calls Stone's script "a travesty" that dredges up bogus theories and unfounded speculation. Among them: the suggestion that three hobos arrested near the assassination site were involved (they were vagrants who had nothing to do with the assassination, says Weisberg), and Garrison's "discovery" that the route of Kennedy's motorcade had been changed at the last minute (a phony charge, says Weisberg, that was based on conflicting descriptions...