Word: fake
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read music," said Phillip Crosby in what must have been the most plausible statement made by a public figure last week. "Like the old man, we fake it." The trouble, of course, is that Ring's boys do not fake it like the old man. Phillip, Dennis and Lindsay (Brother Gary has his own act) sing roughly like three C-plus scholars at a fraternity party. They are clean-cut, modest and likable; after listening to them for a little while, one longs to hear three singers who are dirty-cut, vain and loathsome, but talented...
...Furneau) who really loves him and goes off with a rich bitch who seems to symbolize ancient Rome itself, the Great Whore of Revelation. Then he tries a popular sex substitute, a pumpkin-breasted, pea-brained Hollywood star (played by Anita Ekberg). On the third night, he covers a fake miracle involving a tree in which the Madonna has supposedly been manifested. When the miracle fails to transpire, the crowd attacks the tree-by obvious inference, the apocalyptic Tree of Life, whose "leaves were for the healing of the nations"-and tears it to pieces...
...Anxiety seems to be the dominant fact?and is threatening to become the dominant cliche?of modern life. It shouts in the headlines, laughs nervously at cocktail parties, nags from advertisements, speaks suavely in the board room, whines from the stage, clatters from the Wall Street ticker, jokes with fake youthfulness on the golf course and whispers in privacy each day before the shaving mirror and the dressing table. Not merely the black statistics of murder, suicide, alcoholism and divorce betray anxiety (or that special form of anxiety which is guilt), but almost any innocent, everyday act: the limp...
...beautiful social worker, is currently facing a charge of murder (false, naturally) for the killing by paper knife of her handsome, brilliant husband-of-one-hour, Victor Carlson, of the socially eminent Monticello Carlsons. As the loyal viewer of Edge well knows, the marriage was performed by a fake J.P., the bogus rite having been staged by Carlson himself, a racketeer with a clipped, cultured accent and a Byronic lip twist, who quoted Nietzsche, drank sherry and drove caddish foreign cars. About the only nice thing about this suave swine was that he would occasionally, in a contemptuous Freudian...
...Dated Paintings. When fake De Chiricos, done in his easily imitated earlier "metaphysical" style, began to flood the art market, the canny, cantankerous artist began to see the shape of things to come. Encouraged by friends, he painted early De Chiricos himself, even predating some of them until he was threatened with legal action. Between the phony forgers and the "genuine" forger, who to this day can turn out 20 paintings a month, confusion reigned...