Word: faked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last period Andy Kydes booted a high center pass to Saltonstall, who made a beautiful fake to elude a defenseman and drilled the ball into the nets...
Foreigners have always loved Italy, Barzini points out. Tourists by the thousands, and recently by the millions, have gone there each year, the Germans and Scandinavians looking for sun, the Americans and Russians eager to absorb culture, the artists and fake artists searching for refuge, the rich seeking laxly enforced tax laws and the poor seeking "a place where indigence looks like modest affluence by contrast with the surrounding poverty." Men come to Italy to pursue the young women, who, Barzini concedes, "are now more disturbingly beautiful than they have ever been," with "harmonious behinds like double mandolins"; foreign women...
Rococo was a royal style, yet one born of relief at the passing away of the splendor and pomp of Versailles and Louis XIV. Aristocrats yearned to lay aside their powdered wigs and play peasant. Marie-Antoinette's fake hamlet in the Trianon park was a doll's house for kings in fustian and queens in dirndls. Watteau and Boucher drew members of the nobility in shepherds' clothing. But aristocracy saw poverty as happy simplicity, not as a wretched problem. Came the French Revolution of 1789, and the wistful sound in the sea shell was no longer...
...profitable trade of forging antiques has happily adapted itself to the manufacturing of old junk-so much easier than turning out an 18th century piece of marquetry. To satisfy a current craze for phrenologist's heads, an excellent fake is now circulating heavily in London and New York in three sizes. Advertising the phrenology clinic of one C. Fuller and dated 1882, the porcelain is artificially cracked in a cobweb pattern and the printing is a tastefully faded blue. One of the first of them turned up on Manhattan's Third Avenue last winter, selling...
...Fake or real, one of the most popular items on Manhattan's First and Second Avenues these days is a pointing hand. Some people seem to think it a hilariously original way to show guests the way to the bathroom...