Word: fake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are also other advantages of having an older brother. "He also lends me his fake I.D.," George says...
...spends weeks living with a "typical" American family, filming their every move. But his cinema-verite opus runs into trouble, and he decides to salvage it by creating a blockbuster ending: he sets their house on fire. So what, he reasons, if his real-life film suddenly turns fake: "What are they gonna do -- put me in movie jail...
...playing ever faster and looser with the line that separates fact and fiction. These specimens of "reality TV" come in two varieties: those that try to fashion drama out of real life and those that try to make drama look like real life. As the real and the fake get harder to tell apart, ethical and aesthetic questions get trickier...
...candidate, meanwhile, is an earnest but wimpy liberal who quotes Adlai Stevenson at environmental rallies and wilts slowly under a shower of political advice ("You really need to define yourself in relation to the other candidates"). It looks, sounds and feels like the real thing. But it's flagrantly fake -- and funny...
Speakes is surely not the first White House spokesman to fake a President's words, though he may be the first one to admit it. Washington is a city with a large industry devoted to making inarticulate politicians sound lucid, to turning what is prosaic into poetry. But, as Speakes ruefully admits now, even manufactured words ought to be placed in the proper mouth before they are passed out to history...