Word: ersatz
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...problem is too much composition. It's ersatz, arty, pretension. You have to take a picture of something you're part of--that holds meaning for you," she added...
...Japanese shun guns, they adore models of the real thing. Last year model-gun manufacturers turned out a $25 million arsenal of 600,000 ersatz weapons, among them exact replicas of the Luger PO8, the Walther P38 and the Mauser Military 7.63 mm. According to law, all barrels of metal models were colored yellow or white so as to discourage holdup men from fooling the public...
...nasty fate would have it, is the last movie scheduled to play Manhattan's doomed Radio City Music Hall. The choice could not be more appropriate, for Crossed Swords is the quintessential Music Hall film: an undemanding, all-star family entertainment with period sets and costumes bathed in ersatz gold. It's perfect wallpaper for an art deco palace...
...revenues last year. Just in case Coke does leave, Indian researchers have come up with a substitute that they hope will be commercially exploited, keep bottling plants running and employment up. But the copied Coke may not work. India's soft-drink fanciers have learned to distinguish between ersatz Coke, which is peddled everywhere on the Indian market, and the Real Thing...
Jungle wallpaper has transformed the kitchen into an ersatz fern grotto. The bedroom is nothing less than rococo. The spirit of Mardi Gras inhabits the game room. But the soul of Malibu's newest $800,000 mansion lies in its bathroom. "I thought it only appropriate to cover the walls with rocks," smiles The Who's millionaire drummer, Keith Moon, 30. "The house does belong to a rock star...