Word: ersatz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston, among other stores, have placed orders, suggesting that the eggplant-size paper rocks will be at least as much of a hit on the party circuit this fall as, say, pet rocks were last year. In fact, orders are pouring in so fast that the ersatz emeralds, diamonds and rubies are now in their second printing...
...built-for-children way that is the mark of the consumption-oriented hipster: stark white walls, huge plants and Coltrane records. At other times the same group is unbelievably activist, traveling the country and spreading its poison about this great land on every Midwest college campus with ersatz buildings and naive kids of our American yeomanry. The Intellectual is lazy and active, stupid and unbelievably cunning, lying and truthful--anything, so long as the image backs up the pseudoconspiracy Wolfe offers for his place on Reagan's National Council on the Arts come January...
...disc jockey who answered Drickamer's victory call was apparently dissatisfied with her reaction to victory, so he asked her to pretend he had just picked up the phone and then scream a lot, while he taped the ersatz yell...
...sales on Continental Airlines took off as soon as the Cows were added to its beverage list, and the airline is now selling special $1 "cow chips"-ersatz gold tokens, embellished with a cow, good for three drinks. Continental's thirstiest "Cowboys" seem to be women -and college students of both sexes. Explains Stewardess Becky Schnehl: "Maybe it's a carryover from their milkshake days. The sweetness appeals, and so does the fact that they usually can't taste the alcohol in it." Elaine Drakos, a teacher from Huntington, Long Island, has found another virtue in Cows...
...Donleavy's world, things must never be "ersatz" or "outre," nor people "parvenu"; chamois gloves and cummerbunds are "de rigeur." A favorite social disease is known fondly as "The Syph". All is familiar and in its place, for good or for worse. You are meant to enter his world of social fatuousness, accept his intimate chit-chat as personal conseil and assume that you possess all the sports cars, villas and yachts that are referred to. As a result, you and your mythical antagonist--i.e., the ever-present social enemy--become the protagonists. The verbal bouts in which you both...