Word: ersatz
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...Without a doubt, Eleanor is prettier than George. But for all her ersatz eyelashes and frosted hair, her image is still one of a wife parroting the absurd, any-promise-for-a-vote utterances of her husband...
Comic relief is provided by a cast of four regulars, who make up a motley, multiracial sampling of the building's tenants: an Italian con man, a black superintendent, a fiery Puerto Rican and a jittery white liberal. "Quite on!" shouted the ersatz liberal in a demonstration of solidarity with Davis in last week's installment. "You know," he added, "I was the first to complain when they took Amos 'n' Andy off the air." It is a complaint likely to be echoed by a broader audience when the Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show ends...
...desperate culture of emotionally troubled rejects, largely from working-class and even ghetto families. Amphetamines, heroin and old-fashioned alcohol have generally replaced pot and LSD; violence has supplanted Aquarian love. Now the area is open to the professional pimp, who uses a combination of terrorism, drugs and ersatz affection to lure confused teen-age girls into prostitution. The teeny-hookers have created a glut on the market, sneers a tough old pro of 20. "They want to set the world on fire -and they ain't even got their period...
...beauty of it, says the county, is that while the plastics cost $74,504 to install, the ersatz trees will not have to be watered or pruned, and the leaves will not shed...
...often as the regime's suave spokesman and negotiator. He was an instant hit with the American liaison team that went to Yenan in 1944 to coordinate war efforts against the Japanese. One member of the team, John Emerson, recalls that Chou was a charming regular at the ersatz Saturday-night dances. "The orchestra was a strange combination of a violin and Chinese instruments, and the senior officials would shuffle around with their wives on a makeshift dance floor...