Word: counterfeits
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Republicans grumbled that Dole can hardly dub Clinton an invertebrate while he himself wiggles between principles. In a Wall Street Journal essay, Gingrich booster and political augurist Arianna Huffington called Clinton a "counterfeit" and Dole a "composite--a collage of positions determined by polling data and focus groups," and predicted that in a matchup, the counterfeit would win. The idea of that choice helps explain why voters tired of gamey party politics ache for the only candidate who has yet to say whether he belongs to a party...
...HUMAN CONDITIONS--love, rage, fear, madness and the rest of the ragbag--the hardest for an actor or a writer of fiction to counterfeit is genius. Merely reminding us won't work, because we haven't been there. Is genius simply a powerful flow of really good ideas? Doesn't help; we don't know where even moderately good ideas come from. Robert Harris, whose chilling novel Fatherland imagined what Europe might have been like had World War II stalled out in an English defeat and a U.S. withdrawal, makes a brave try at construing genius, the light bulb over...
...They can counterfeit U.S. dollars that pass though the Federal Reserve undetected," Taylor said. "Essentially, this can alleviate their dire need for cash. And if it does devalue the dollar, they've achieved their goals...
...atmosphere of genteel censure, Catherine only gradually surmises that "no one has ever loved me in my life." When love surprisingly appears--or its slick semblance, in the form of a fortune hunter (Jon Tenney)--she comes to realize that if there is a choice between two forms of counterfeit affection, a cash-based passion may be superior to a condescending paternalism. The Heiress is a play of bleak and haunting subtleties...
Wilson was eventually admitted to the formal, but only after telling the Cabot House senior tutor of the identify of the student who sold him the counterfeit ticket. When that student arrived at the event, the tutor "nabbed him," Wilson said...