Word: ersatz
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...wearing them downtown-in Washington, Chicago, New York and Boston. Eager to keep the boomlet going, importers and U.S. manufacturers are supplying a variety of styles, mostly in greys, blacks and browns, that range in price from $85 for a karakul number to $3.95 for a bargain-basement ersatz fur. Following their own mysterious impulses, women also seemed to have got that Slavic feeling: the most conspicuous new hat style on female heads this winter has been a high-fashion version of the shapka that looks like a furry coal scuttle...
...skier who cannot get away to the mountains, there is now the Ski-Dek Center. Here he can enjoy the pleasures of an ersatz ski trip on an indoor moving mountain, whipped by air-conditioned breezes, inspired by hand-painted alpine scenery-and surrounded by all the comforts of a bowling alley...
...perhaps the strangest evidence of all was that Chief Flight Engineer John Mayfield had blithely repaired a fuel pump motor on the Constellation the day before the crash by cutting down a brush taken from a 1954 Mercury automobile generator. As it turned out, the engine with the ersatz part kept going during the fatal flight. But engineers from established airlines blinked in dismay at Imperial's incredibly slipshod methods of maintenance. Said one: "They must have been a little desperate...
...went to Animas Trujano, a Mexican picture about a slow-witted Zapotec Indian, played, curiously enough, by Japan's Toshiro Mifune. But -as is customary at film festivals-the most talked-about film in town was not the big winner. It was a cartoon from Communist Yugoslavia called Ersatz...
...historical journalism, George Waller, sometime magazine editor, has vividly reconstructed both the facts of the case and the spirit of the era. Although the torrentially reported crime could scarcely be more familiar to readers over 40. the author's retracing of the events builds up an effective ersatz suspense that makes the crime once again seem full of horror and mystery...