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...goes on at great lengths in "Funky Chic" defending Evelyn Waugh whom he says will be remembered as the greatest English novelist of the 20th century for his concern with the stuff of life--manners, dress, the Right People. He continually attacks what he considers the accoutrements of bogus sophistication--white-walled apartments on Riverside Drive, unread stacks of The New York Review of Books, Coltrane records on the stereo. All that can be said for Wolfe's own style is that it's, well, catty. It's the style of a gossip columnist for a small-town newspaper...
...mother, who contrives the bogus legitimacy test to foil Winifred as she has foiled all previous applicants for her son's hand, is rather simply played by Judy Banks. The character requires bitchiness and vanity, two qualities which Banks humorously displays in her first scene. However, Banks fails to develop her character any further, so the only potentially evil elements in the play ends up harmless and benign...
...Lampoon member offered Chase a "facsimile of a totally bogus check" for $115 if he would rejoin Saturday Night Live. "Chevy, we think you are worth almost every penny of it," he said...
However, the whole affair seemed extremely easy, almost planned Could be the Russians slipped us a bogus plane? Maybe our name-"Foxbat" -applies very well. The Russians...
...virtues as well as anyone, he had to bear the banner for a party that acquired a largely undeserved left-leaning reputation under former Chancellor Willy Brandt. Since West German voters elect their Chancellor by voting for a party, rather than directly for an individual candidate, that bogus image may have cost Schmidt the easy victory he was entitled to by standards of achievement...