Word: faked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no iron to this Iron Age fable. The grimness is fake, the fascination with virginity is a naughty bore, and the monstrous figure of Shardik is cheapened by watery supernaturalism. It is one thing for Kelderek and his primitive fellow tribesmen-a few skeptics to the contrary -to believe the bear is a god, quite another for author and reader to pretend to believe it. This pretense is what Adams insists on, and it smacks of Pan worship, that Victorian silliness in which refined city dwellers pretended that they glimpsed the wicked, goat-footed god as they strolled...
...period piece. And that is exactly how the play is handled in this production--which, thank God, doesn't try to get funny with any embarrassing 20th-century gimmickry. There are plenty of slapstick embellishments, but--from the opening blast of "God Save the Queen" to the fake 19th-century programs, this production remains true to the spirits of Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan themselves...
...best thing to come out of all this bicentennial nonsense is the report in a recent Art News that the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington (the one Dolly Madison rescued from the British in 1812, now hanging in the East Room of the White House) is probably a fake...
...long enough been acquainted with your eminence in the belletristic sphere," Andre Malraux writes him in English. "Now we are overturned to un cover you as a painterly ace ..." This is Perelman at his best, inspired by the pompous, the fake and tawdry, and hell bent for leatherette...
...those who were born after 1789 that they could never really know how good life could be. The same feeling--a combination of nostalgia, snobbery, and contempt for the newfangled present--permeates Stavisky. The final value judgement on this feeling, though, is thoroughly ambiguous. The life of a fake Parisian millionaire in the thirties is attractive, but are we meant to be seduced or purged of our attraction...