Word: ersatz
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...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...
Harrison has absolutely no patience with the neurasthenic absorption and empty style of Joan Didion--who has been called "America's finest woman prose stylist," but whom Harrison finds "transparently ersatz," and "merely cheap." "All connections are equally meaningful and equally senseless," says Joan of Dark; her nihilism, says Harrison, amounts to amorality. Didion's not entitled to "fiddle while Watts burns," and her disconnection of the suffering soul from any political or spiritual meaning, sorely contrasts with Harrison's crusade to restore those vital, fading links...
...standing in the polls as election day approaches will determine how much support he gets from the Democratic left. Should he be close going into election day he may inherit the support of some disgruntled Kennedy backers. More likely, he will fade as liberals decide he is an ersatz lefty, with a record that makes Carter look like a member of the Politburo...
Thumbs up for ersatz...
...feisty essays demonstrate, over the past four decades the teacher-philosopher has seen no reason to alter his course. He did not need Alexander Solzhenitsyn to inform him of the Gulag; back in the '30s Hook condemned the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, nations whose politics employed "vicious ersatz theologies." The Supreme Court's pendulum decisions on criminal justice have found Hook unchanged; he has long advocated the rights of the victim: "When we read that a man whose speeding car had been stopped by a motorcycle policeman, who without a search warrant forced him to open...