Word: faked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case," protested Director Alfred Hitchcock, 76. Even so, the pudgy film maker and his wife Alma ventured to the snowy slopes of St. Moritz, where he wanted to rest before finishing his latest film, Family Plot. The movie, he said cryptically, is "sort of a comedy-melodrama about a fake woman medium, an out-of-work actor and a chase after a missing heir who is also a kidnaper." Had he bothered even to sample the Swiss snow? "We spend most of our time sitting comfortably in the Palace Hotel, watching it all from behind the window...
...actors too. Things are slightly less hectic now that the shows are taped. But a complete show must still be rehearsed, blocked and taped within twelve hours. Actors frequently call each other by their real names on-camera or get so confused by stage blocking that they walk through fake walls. Says Art Wolf, a director of Another World, the most elaborate soap: "The most difficult thing is putting an hour show together so fast." World has 37 sets, a live band and a discotheque; logistics alone requires a small army of a crew. The action is reminiscent of early...
...long ago, the furrier was one of U.S. retailing's most endangered species. Badgered by conservationists, women began passing up their cherished minks, muskrats and marmots, settling instead for fake furs-or none at all. Then came the recession, and buyers began to balk at purchasing coats-no matter what they were made of-that had three-and four-figure price tags. Fur sales in specialty shops and department stores across the U.S. plunged, and many firms went out of business altogether. In just two years, nearly half of the 2,000 fur wholesalers and suppliers clustered in Manhattan...
...demand for American furs has increased, largely because the long decline of the U.S. dollar has made them cheaper and thus more attractive abroad. At home the fur revival partly reflects new developments on the price and environmental fronts. The rise in petroleum prices has increased the cost of fake furs, many of which are based on petrochemicals; the retail price of a full-length fake "mink," now about $300, has risen about 20% since 1972 (but of course still costs much less than the real ranch mink, which retails for about $5,000). Rising concern about industrial pollution...
...place of wafers and menstrual blood is drunk in lieu of wine, and when some woman with a sanitary napkin hooked up over her clothing, leaping about, stomps up and down on a box of Kotex. It's all rather artsy, but in the end there's too much fake blood and not enough...