Word: bogus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bring on Jerry Giesler with a paternity case. Sister has already married a mathematician from Cal Tech, who appears to her as a wonderful being, "exotic and remote as a maharajah"-but who makes less money than the gardener. Decker's father-still hung up on a bogus buddyhood with war cronies-is a martini-oiled mechanism, a country-club wine-and-food snob and bore. His grandfather is a picture of the indignity of a foolish old age. After a successful life as a real estate shark, the old phony has set himself up disguised as a grizzled...
...says Martin, "and Cassius always had two"), toured Greenwich Village looking for beatniks, and whooped delightedly when passers-by recognized him. Tapping a startled cabby on the shoulder, he said: "Why, I bet even you know that I'm Cassius Clay, the great fighter." Then he bought a bogus newspaper in a penny arcade. The headline: CASSIUS SIGNS FOR PATTERSON FIGHT. "Back home," explained Cassius, "they'll think it's real. They won't know the difference...
Mark is the rolling stone who has learned the trick of gathering moss. As a rebel of the '30s, Mark's mainstream Marxism made his campus career; but Clem ("an Infantile Leftist") was the type who went to jail. Now Mark has burgeoned in his bogus beard as a TV-forum type, a voice of religiosity cum psychoanalytical fashion. Clem sneers at him as "Temple B'nai Kierkegaard...
...type for box scores, presidential speeches, racing results, stock closings, will all be set by tape. We want jurisdiction over those machines." He also insists on maintaining the longstanding provision for setting "reproduction"-advertising copy that is never used or intended to be. "Reproduction" is better known as "bogus," or "dead horse"-and by any name it is the worst sort of featherbedding. Powers and the publishers are at an absolute impasse on the bogus issue. Says Publishers' Negotiator Bradford: "This is one issue we must have progress on." Says Powers: "This is one thing we just...
...publishers and the printers shifted positions slightly, but only by inches in a dispute that called for seven-league strides. The printers dropped their demand for an extra week's paid vacation-something that Bert Powers had not expected to get anyway. The publishers withdrew their resistance to "bogus"-a printers' make-work practice of unnecessarily resetting some advertising type...