Word: ersatz
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...title is just. For the British, this was not so much a war of pitched battles between armies as it was of ersatz eggs, smashed plumbing, maimed children and "austerity"-general misery that is orchestrated by enemy bombs and British bureaucrats. The 67 pictures that serve as illustrations to the book will be emotive to the older generation in Britain and should be informative to the young everywhere. Calder himself is young. He was born in 1942, not far removed from Britain's "finest hour," according to Churchill. The calculative eye of history, however, might identify it as Britain...
...From the visual put-down of depicting us as flat, two-dimensional beings existing on cigarettes and ersatz food to the condescension slightly tinged with apprehension of the article, you show clearly the mild contempt of the self-anointed intellectual aristocracy for the stupid middle-class geese who lay the golden eggs of taxes and keep our country running...
...find it quite ironic and terribly sad that Congress must endlessly pass legislation to protect the American consumer from the very people who presume to be the standards by which America's greatness is measured. These ersatz pillars of society apparently find no difficulty in preaching national standards of morality and condemning the younger generation for its cynicism while they themselves are cheating some little old lady out of a few dollars in the marketplace. It is a bitter joke on all of us that big business has in its grasp the power to make America great...
...Boorstin also has going for him the gracefully stark set, costumes, and lighting (by Bruce West, Joan Minto and Jim Harrison, respectively) and a swell rock band, The Rhythm Method, whose rendition of John Hall's music for "Morning" give that play the ersatz soul quality that helps make it tick...
...major way with the Big Two: "A mink is a mink," he says with reverence, "and a sable is a sable, and I will not tear them, trim them or tuck them." Nonetheless, Partos has rimmed a black Alaskan seal cape with flowers made of 40 different ersatz shades of mink. Revillon Furs' designer Fernando Sanchez likes a long-haired mink, worn with the fur inside, that presents a hairless-though embossed-exterior...