Word: bogus
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...Tubes, who are like a recrudescence of all that is and ever was bad with the entire world, especially that of rock, will torture you and your mother if you bring your mother to rock concerts which is real dumb and so is all this, along with some bogus group called Be-Bob Deluxe at the Orpheum on Friday at 7 p.m. Sleaze city, kitty. Finally, you've got the J. Geils Band, who also rot, like everything else about the seventies, in a benefit for Summerthing, on Wednesday, April 28 at 8 pm, at the Music Hall...
...which is still much underrated) rarely seemed as impressive as his early collages or his dreamlike images of the '20s and '30s, it still bore testimony to one of the most durable and fertile talents of our entire culture, a great enemy of the trivial and the bogus and the solemn...
...winner is ... ," "Indiana 86, Michigan 68" into the mike. It was the happiest night of the expected number of lives, and one of the producers of an award-winning documentary about a crazed Japanese who skied down the flank of Everest came out with the most richly bogus solemnity of the evening: "I just wanna thank my mother, the man and the mountain...
Although individuals could show human values, anyone in a large group was only a pawn in the game. Even the liberal Dubcek figure in Deltchev turns out to be bogus--a political opportunist. Given the climate of the times, Ambler found himself a pawn as well: I found an old early fifties 25-cent paperback which screams...
...least in the social sciences: more is better. So, as an indirect result of his compulsion, seniors now often pick a length and try to fill it rather than pick an argument and write to an appropriate length. A trained scholar would, of course, recognize this approach as bogus for the purposes of good writing, although a goodly number of them seem intent on doing it themselves...