Word: fake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intrepid Yardling was not daunted. He tried the local liquor store, using his California license, acquired in New York. The Pro said no. He tried the local supermarket, using his Columbia i.d., acquired at Phillips Exeter Academy. Broadway bagged him. And he tried local bars, using a fake moustache, acquired at his best friend's 10th birthday party. The Bow and Arrow shot him down...
That's Wishbone football. Run right, run left, run straight up the midddle. Pitch right, option left, fake up the middle. Throw in an occasional pass play to keep the defense honest, but mainly concentrate on hiding the pigskin...
...typical college happy hour in the common room of Davenport, one of Yale's residential colleges. Davenport is the schizophrenic college, with fake Gothic architecture on the street side and fake Georgian architecture on the courtyard side. A bell tower rises from the spires...
...last film, Stand By Me, was suffused with such yuppie winsomeness that today's generation of teenage boys could use it as their fathers had used copies of The Prophet: to impress girls with their sensitivity. Here, liberated by parody, he remints visual cliches, like the gloriously fake matte paintings of fairy-tale realms, and they are funny- lovely. As for the Princess Bride, she is flat-out lovely. Wright's grave blond beauty makes her the wedding-cake figure around which all the movie's clowns cavort. As you watch this enchanting fantasy, feel free to be thrilled...
...Ogonyok, which two years ago was largely unread, now sells out all 1.5 million issues every week. Under the editorship of Vitaly Korotich, the magazine has published a 1939 testament from an exiled Bolshevik denouncing Stalin as "the real enemy of the nation, and the organizer of famine and fake trials." It also sent a young reporter to Afghanistan to write candid accounts of the increasingly unpopular...