Word: faked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story, cold-warring Russia and the U.S., after inadvertently eradicating all life from the British Isles, join in recreating Merry England with fake issues of the London Times and fond memories of Robin Hood. In another, a cuckolded space scientist packages his wife as condensed food for a Mars-bound astronaut, who has already enjoyed her in other ways...
...waves lapping at a blackened shore. The whole world-a hideous desert of slag heaps, ashpits, garbage, swamping flies and choking, poisonous vapors-holds for her an absorbing and mysterious fascination. Even the contaminated sea is infinitely more exciting, and more satisfying, than the blue waters, golden sands and fake sea spray of her synthetic seaside at home. Her first sexual contacts and her first experience of human brutality have a weird and frightening intensity...
SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO (Columbia). Country-western purists are likely to yell "fake" at this album. True, the Byrds don't sound exactly like Buck Owens and his Buckaroos, but they do perform the material with simplicity and in a relaxed, folky manner. Woody Guthrie's socialist hymn to Pretty Boy Floyd gets an authentic bluegrass treatment here, and Blue Canadian Rockies, an old Gene Autry tune, will bring back memories of the Hollywood cowboy astride his horse Champion, galloping through "the golden poppies. . . 'round the banks of Lake Louise." Two Bob Dylan songs, Nothing Was Delivered...
Ginsberg was going to read some free verse that he had composed for the occasion, but he had lost his voice after too much chanting. So he let one of the Fugs read it for him: "All is poetry, the political convention's fake images, mobilizes conspiring with reason to demonstrate America unconscious, hippies chanting Om, the first word of the universe under cloudy new moon light and brilliant...
...nothing else, this novel shows that literature is perhaps the most Victorian of arts, the most difficult to mold into new patterns, the hardest to fake. Despite prophecies of the novel's doom, it may be that the old-fashioned virtues of story, characterization and dramatic prose exposition will keep it alive even after that millennium when TV is wired directly into everyone's skull...