Word: faked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...award included a gold painted brick, a gold cockroach to "enhance Mr. Rockefeller's personal beetle collection and to remind him of the people who are forced to collect coackroaches," and a pile of fake money. NAM also issued an invitation for Nelson A. Rockefeller, former governor of New York, to speak before it about his grandfather's alleged cruelty to factory strikers...
...also quibble with Scheff's interpretation of some classics in this collection. His "Old MacDonald Has a Farm" starts strongly (6667887), but after the first "EE-I-EE-I-OHH" (99004) loses all the melody of the original and becomes a toneless and repetitive fake (44444/44444/444444/444444). Similarly, his "Pop Goes the Weasel" begins promisingly, but fizzles fast. (Music historians will always wonder why Scheff chose a 5 for the "pop" in the song's last line. The "pop" was meant to surprise and delight listeners. Would not the higher-pitched 0 or # have served that purpose better than the flat...
...Fake Proverbs. The Chinese are not amused. Charging that the film draws "an unacceptable parallel between socialist China and fascist Germany," they demanded that the French government ban Les Chinois à Paris or suffer the consequences. The movie was no laughing matter to the French government either, which politely explained that it had had nothing to do with the picture. Nonetheless, since China had already canceled a French symphony orchestra tour of China and a Chinese gymnasts' visit to France when the film was being made last August, there were fears that a French industrial exhibition in Peking this...
Director Yanne (who was promptly dubbed Chang Yanne by one Paris wit) wasted no time cashing in on the tempest in a China teacup. He coined a helpful publicity slogan: "The film that frightened 800 million Chinese." He also invented a few fake Chinese proverbs, attributing them, naturally, to Confucius. Sample axiom: "Marxist philosophy can very easily be reconciled with foie gras. "More seriously, he argued last week: "If the cinema is going to cause diplomatic crises, then it's time to worry about the mental health of the great powers...
...your ability to think or feel. It won't let you get close enough to care about it--it is always on the attack. Little Regan just gets filthier and filthier and when she's exorcized the movie has to end because it took all its bang from the fake effects Regan gets so foul that you go home feeling laundered like a golden girl. You also feel laundered in muck. People must be hard up for highs, or bored, or both...