Word: ersatz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just to represent, but to be the state-"L'état c'st moi!" Today no such claim is feasible; authority cannot be derived from a God who is supposed to have died. So an abstraction, the people, had to serve instead, providing the basis for an ersatz religion, and an even more preposterous claim than Louis XIV's-this time to be the people...
...used on ten patients, ranging in age from three to 60. All had third-degree burns over 50% to 90% of their bodies. Says Burke: "They were very badly burned. On a scale of 1 to 10, they were 11." In the 16 months since the first graft, the ersatz skin has not been rejected by any of the patients, nor have infections developed in the grafted areas. The body's natural defense system does not recognize it as foreign, like animal and cadaver skin. Thus there is no need to use drugs to help prevent rejection. The wounds...
...Justice Department in 1981 guidelines to FBI agents: "Inducement or encouragement of an individual to engage in illegal activity in which he would otherwise not be disposed to engage." Key to this defense are tapes showing undercover agents coaching Williams to "come on strong" when he meets the ersatz Arab, telling him, "It's all bull. You gotta play and blow your horn...
...THOSE who have never before experienced Rocky Horror but are willing to give it a chance, the best advice is not to worry too much about the bizarre if not always inteligible plot: the live rock music and the red-bulbed ersatz Radio City Music Hall set, and the hyperkinetic pace should suffice, at least for a start. Then check out the movie at Exeter. Those who bother to look past Rocky Horror's surface shock value--"give yourself over to absolute pleasure," urges Frank, "swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh"--will discover a literate and witty...
...THIS CURIOUSLY SCHIZOID debut album is any indication, the Nervous Eaters better keep an eye on their audience. If the group--one of the mainstays of Boston's rock scene over the past few years--displayed its previously undisclosed ersatz California mellow side at a grungy hard-core punk joint, the switchblades might fly. But if the Eaters showed up at a junior high school prom and started bashing out their traditional no-holds-barred lust-ridden ear-splitting cacaphony, the result would be right out of Carrie...