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...Harvard Lampoon is apparently testing the undergraduate political waters by backing a bogus candidate for the new Undergraduate Council...
...sure, both Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Class of 1984 claim a basis in fact: real events, real people, only the names changed to make everything seem so awesomely bogus. Journalist Cameron Crowe, then 22, spent the 1979-80 school year undercover at "Ridgemont High" in Southern California, then sculpted his observations into a book. Crowe's screenplay reunites his familiar cast: Brad (Judge Reinhold) is the lazily macho chef at the best fast-food joint in town. Damone (Robert Romanus) is the greaser who is about two-fifths as cool as he thinks he is. Spicoli (Sean...
...Juan Carlos, 44. The honorific (after the Iberian castle Dali bought for his late wife Gala) is not so terrific: no House of Lords, no special privileges. The new marques is as contentious as ever, however. Last week he reportedly claimed that organizers of a retrospective had included 80 bogus canvases in the show. Pooh to Pubol, says one of the organizers, his former personal secretary Peter Moore. The works are more than surreal, they're real...
...shops in Taiwan and Hong Kong, knock-offs of the bestselling Apple II Plus model are available for prices ranging down to $325, as compared with $1,530 for the genuine article in the U.S. A few of the bogus machines bear Apple Computer Inc.'s distinctive trademark, a multicolored apple with a bite missing. Others have slightly changed names like Apolo. Asian manufacturers have so successfully duplicated the silicon micro chips in the core of the Apple machines that the imitations can use a broad range of software, from VisiCalc, the top-selling business budgeting and planning program...
...export their computers to South Africa and South America. One Taiwanese company is reportedly producing 3,000 imitation Apples a month. Apple's disgruntled Asian dealers have warned executives at the company's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters that the U.S. may be the next stop for the bogus computers...