Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year anyway. Oh, heck, at least before our next issue hits the stands. That seems safe. He keeps saying he's done, hedging ever so slightly, and then proving himself wrong. It's either a rare lapse of vision for this self-made billionaire or the grandest ongoing head fake in the entertainment industry...
...example, police, a bomb squad and a team of hostage negotiators descended on Grimsley High School in Greensboro, N.C., this August. Hostages had been taken, and the campus was under siege. It was all staged, with people acting the role of hostage takers, but there was nothing fake about the purpose. With the school's cooperation, the grim 6-hr. exercise was an opportunity for police and school officials to sharpen their response in an emergency. "You prepare for the worst and hope for the best," says David Robinette, a Greensboro policeman who is beginning his fifth year as Grimsley...
...lost and grumpy in the woods, with other pseudodocumentary filler: archival material on the witch legend, interviews with local police officers and friends of the missing students, all tied together by a suitably questing narrator. The trope is familiar enough, both from that oxymoronic phrase "reality TV" and from fake-umentary murder movies, such as the 1979 Cannibal Holocaust and the current Drop Dead Gorgeous. The Last Broadcast, a slick thriller assembled on a desktop computer in 1997 for--get this--$900, mixes interviews and "found footage" in its story of a cable-TV crew that goes into New Jersey...
...three-hour Intro to Racing course at 9 in the morning at the Laguna Seca motor speedway in Monterey, Calif. Before the classroom lesson, the instructor, Andrew Shoen, sent me into a room to put on a red racing suit, a helmet, some driving gloves and a fake mustache. The mustache was my idea--it seems to be part of the NASCAR uniform. Much of what Andrew said made sense to me until he got to the double-clutch, heel-toe downshifting maneuver, which is the heart of racing technique. It was at this point that I had to raise...
...PEOPLE'S KING According to legend, Henry V mingled with his soldiers incognito on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. In the spirit of Prince Hal, Jordan's 37-year-old King Abdullah last week wore a fake white beard and posed as a TV reporter to interview his subjects. Father would be proud...