Word: ersatz
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...troops to surrender all but a few of their 50 cannons, temporarily confiscated their flints and black powder and subjected each make-believe soldier to a metal detector's scan. No matter: the glory of re-created victory was undimmed. Over the sunny Virginia meadows marched 2,200 ersatz Revolutionaries. There were French infantry of the Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment in their gleaming white uniforms; authentically ragtag colonials, including the Barnstable Militia of Cape Cod, some in burlap and bandages; and, of course, 750 English redcoats and Hessians, gallant in their mock defeat...
...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...