Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...argument that the Soviet penetration into American life, government, science and industry during the '30s and '40s was deep, thorough and hostile. Venona shows that the American Communist Party was elaborately involved in the spying (though of course only a small minority of party members were actual spies). To fake the Venona traffic would have required a conspiracy involving thousands, working together over many years. Furthermore, the decrypted messages are often verified by other sources. The Soviets and their agents in America thought their coded messages were secure, so they communicated fairly freely--about their penetration of the wartime Manhattan...
...could find something wrong with The Phantom Menace if you wanted. Rag on Amidala's bizarre lipstick. Say the digitized characters look fake. Make fun of poor Jar-Jar Binks. Not I. Doing that is missing the point. I'm a fan. And sitting there, in the still-bright theater, I decide I can even get over missing Han Solo...
...real building, but he was to develop an exquisite sense of architectural convention, of stylistic parody, that shows in the dream skyscrapers and iron galleries of his later cityscapes. In 1941 he made his way to Lisbon and from there to the U.S. With difficulty, and with a "slightly fake" passport that he doctored with his own rubber stamp, he reached Miami in 1942, and his definitive expatriation began...
PLEASE NOTE All drugs are fake except for a bag of marijuana, which is locked away and alarmed...
...lost space capsule still looks pretty good after almost 38 years in the drink, thanks to its titanium-aluminum construction. It sits upright on a sandy knoll three miles deep, its window and parachute liner still intact and its periscope still extended. The words "Liberty Bell 7" and a fake crack painted on its side are still clearly visible. Even the singe marks left by the explosives that blew off that infamous hatch door are visible on the video sent back by a remote-control submersible...