Word: faked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second period, Harvard freshman Phil Evans put Harvard in the lead at 2-1. Evans, forechecking in the Clarkson zone, stole the puck from a Clarkson defender, skated through two other Golden Knights, gave goalie Moore a shoulder fake and placed a backhander into...
Transatlantic Blues bubbles with such amiably jaded wit-on the modern church, the absurdities of "making it," celebrities as praise junkies, fake humility as an asset, indeed turning anything into an asset. Chatworth even considers publishing his confessional tape to "launch that new career as Mr. Honesty." The novel is a promising departure for Sheed too. It is much looser and more vigorously humorous than his previous fiction. As a parody of personality packaging and what happens when the package is unbundled, Chatworth may be, as the author says, "desolately cute." But his confusions raise an unsettling question...
...scene is a familiar one to all small boys with big dreams: make-believe football games in the backyard, played in solitude to the roar of an imaginary crowd. "I'd throw up the ball, pretend it was a kickoff, then run and fake and flip and fall down and get up again and call another play. Sometimes I'd pretend it was a pass. I'd run and catch it or dive for it. That...
...play here." But right on Falstaff's heels in Hotspur's ally, the Earl of Douglas. Seeing him, Falstaff drops to the ground and plays dead. Despite the ensuing fairly well-staged duel and despite the later blocking of Hal exactly between the now dead Hotspur and the fake--dead Falstaff, the scene remains unbalanced. Its impact comes and goes with the initial comic burst...
...girls need big diamonds," says Supermodel Margaux Hemingway, who boasts of being 5-ft. 12-in. tall. Nevertheless, a 105.54-carat diamond rocked her. "It was so big, it looked fake," she says. The brobdingnagian bauble called the soleil d'or (golden sun), owned by a private American collector, was shown to Margaux during the taping of a French talk show. As a ring of security guards looked on nervously, Margaux tossed the stone up in the air and caught it in her well-photographed white teeth. "I'm good at peanuts too," she said modestly. Are diamonds...