Word: faked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Face of a Hero opens with a vastly unsuccessful Prologue, done in mumbles and fake Southern accents. The play itself, based on what was obviously a magnificent conception by Pierre Boulle, at times repeats the hokiness and incomprehensibility of its opening scene. More often, however, it is entrancing, disturbing theater, and it leaves the members of the audience talking to themselves when it is over...
...philosophical fable, is an unusual book on several counts. The author, fortunately for him. is unknown. "Abram Tertz," his pseudonym, is the name of the Jewish hero of a ballad that passed the rounds in Moscow during the wave of anti-Jewish propaganda officially stirred up over the fake "Doctors' Plot" against Stalin's life in 1952. The book's manuscript was smuggled out of Russia to a group of anti-Communist Polish émigrés in France...
...politicians and bureaucrats. In her new locale, the lush, sun-smitten Caribbean, she lays about her with equal ferocity, whacking British do-gooders and culture vultures, U.S. tourists "with their national air of being permanently engaged in relief work," and the swaggering, capering West Indians, who are lambasted as fake primitives, phony intellectuals and adult delinquents...
...Casanova's Chinese Restaurant,* too many events happen offstage (people get married and die, as it were, in parentheses), and Powell seems to have thrown away the novelist's Godlike privilege of always being in at the kill. But he retains other advantages: he does not fake, he does not invade bedrooms or invite others into his own; he is an artist of the public event. Powell seems to be giving an account of events that are still current, of living while he writes-unlike Proust in his cork-lined room, who evoked things past in order...
...relax before their big events, Russians spent hours selecting postcards, Arabs listened to rock-'n'-roll music, and Africans went on shopping sprees for Elvis Presley records. Athletes harried Olympic officials with fake phone calls about the imminent arrival of a gift of crocodiles from Ghana. Someone started the rumor that a British girl athlete was really a boy, thereby brought a flush of righteous royal red to the British press...