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...have started by seriously criticizing these men--and he still does--but now, in the best gonzo tradition, they have gotten to him. He is positively obsessed with them, and also with Jerry Brown (whom he feels represents a new fascist politics of scarcity), and Jimmy Carter (totally bogus), and C.L. Sulzberger, the major foreign policy voice for Cockburn's "Center Right Coalition," an auspicious group including the likes of Daniel P. Moynihan, Marty Peretz, and half the Harvard faculty...
...student is taking an exam. Detailed footnotes are required for the essay and he panics. He proceeds to make them up, a host of bogus references. After the exam, seized by a fit of Raskolnikov-like paranoia that the teacher will check up and expose his crime, he types up index cards in the Dewey Decimal system, one for each reference, and slips them into the Widener catalogue...
...General Assembly but gravely undermined a very real racism issue important to some nations that voted for the resolution. Apartheid in South Africa was the original target of the U.N.'s Decade for Action to Combat Racism, but that campaign has now been yoked with the bogus condemnation of Zionism. The U.S. and other Western governments are now expected at least to withhold financial support from the program. Apparently realizing that, five African states voted against the Zionism resolution and eleven others abstained -a sign that the week's work may yet backfire against its perpetrators...
...heroine's overweening ambition and demonstrates that a good girl has no time for all those fancy European airs when she could be back in the ghetto, helping her man (the agreeable Billy Dee Williams) win political office. For Mahogany, that kind of moral-cynical, and wholly bogus-is the perfect clincher. Jay Cocks...
Almost all rookie agents start out in one of the field offices, where the work centers on catching counterfeiters and forgers. (Created in 1865 to stem the tide of bogus "greenbacks," the Service is still an arm of the Treasury.) Some are later selected for the Protection Division, which is responsible for the safety of the President, the Vice President and their families, ex-Presidents and theirs, the Secretary of State and presidential candidates during campaigns. A number of agents with special skills come in especially handy and often have fun to boot?skiing alongside Ford, for example...