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...onlything messier than death, Alan Ball's drama taught us, is life. The story of the Fisher family, who ran a funeral parlor in Los Angeles, began as a trenchant, slightly preachy story about fa??ades--how people put up false fronts, the way an undertaker paints makeup on a corpse. It grew into one of TV's best family dramas ever, embracing the Fishers in all their unruly contradictions: artistic, egocentric Claire; repressed, brave David; idealistic, obnoxious Nate; and straitlaced, adventure-seeking Ruth (above, from left, Lauren Ambrose, Michael C. Hall, Peter Krause and Frances Conroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Boffo TV Boxes | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...This poise, she assures you, is strictly a fa??ade. “I’m a little stressed,” she says...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen and Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Showing 'Grace' Under Fire | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

Fitted with copper flashings and decorative turrets, the house has an imposing fa??ade that seems strangely aristocratic, even if its inhabitants are strikingly not. But it is an aristocratic bearing with no patina, copper without verdigris...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv | Title: The Ugly Housing Bubble | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...guise of a broad education is just a red herring, if not a fa??ade for promoting the terrorist agenda. We are in a state of war. We need to focus on the problem at hand: eradicating the unreasonable, ungodly, democracy-hating savages from the face of this Earth. These people do not listen to reason—they are religious extremists who only understand hatred. We have to fight fire with fire—not with a required half-course in each of seven unique fields...

Author: By Sarah C. Mcketta | Title: Operation Gen Ed Freedom | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...Location of Culture.” In addition to his leather manbag stuffed with Marlboro Reds and Saturday night show tickets for the Middle East, he sports an ironic Communist slogan T-shirt. But don’t be fooled by the fa??ade of pretension­; he’s actually quite approachable—when it comes to post-Wall Berlin cinema...

Author: By FM Staff | Title: Sipping Stereotypes | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

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