Word: counterfeit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist border guards. They checked only one in four returning automobiles, quickly gave up a plan to match pass stubs with the halves handed over on entry. The traffic was just too heavy. Almost any piece of paper would do, and the Communist-issued passes were easy to counterfeit...
...first-class parody of the foreign art films that inspired it. Purporting to show "the realism of grownup, contemporary sex" in America-not in England or France or Italy-Producer-Writer-Director Ben Maddow (The Savage Eye) serves up a mannered little pastiche of urban infidelities that is pure counterfeit. Husband Kevin McCarthy can't stand shrewish Wife Lee Grant, so he takes up with Model Viveca Lindfors, who is the mistress of his best friend Herbert Berghof. Rounding out the quintet, for no discernible reason except to exploit interracial dalliance, is Diana Sands as a footloose Negro photographer...
...Rain. With that, the prisoners were driven off to a military camp outside Leopoldville, and the contents of Voronin's briefcase were taken to police headquarters. Sure enough, claimed the government, among them was a letter from Gbenye to the Russians asking for 5 billion in counterfeit Congolese francs to be used to undermine the Congo's currency, and another document requesting arms, tape records and "other espionage equipment." One of the letters bore teeth marks, as if a Russian had tried to swallow...
Enter the local strongman (Peter Falk). The rebels, he says, are winning. The real chief justice, the real archbishop, the real general are dead. Why not substitute the counterfeit dignitaries, the world of illusion for the world of reality? He does, and illusion works just as well as reality. The rebels are defeated...
This pilgrim's progress of a beatnik Stavrogin is a serious and successful moral essay. Burgess argues quite simply that Alex is more of a man as an evil man than as a good zombie. The clockwork of a mechanical society can never counterfeit the organic vitality of moral choice. Goodness is nothing if evil is not accepted as a possibility...