Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mohamad M. Al-Ississ '99, president of the Harvard-Radcliff Society of Arab Students, says he thinks last month's "Saharan Nights" meal--featuring imported sand, palm trees, "oasis" tapas bars and fake snakes--was a little over...
Mohamad M. Al-Ississ '99, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students, says he thinks last month's "Saharan Nights" meal - featuring imported sand, palm trees, "oasis" tapas bars and fake snakes- was a little over...
...history sheds light on his disrespect for the public and the powers of the media. In 1983, Flynt claimed he had evidence that government officials had threatened John DeLorean's life if he did not participate in their cocaine operation. But Flynt later admitted that the audiotape was as "Fake as a $3 bill." That same year, Flynt declared he had tapes depicting members of Congress and President Reagan in sexual acts but was unable to produce the evidence. Today's "Flynt Report' is probably just another example of Flynt's explanation for the DeLorean scam: "Yes, this...
...movements--or action units, as Ekman called them--range from the slight crow's-feet crinkling around the eyes that accompanies a smile to the contraction of forehead muscles that are an integral part of a scowl. "Some of these movements are so difficult that they're impossible to fake unless you're a very skilled actor," says Marian Bartlett, a post-doctoral fellow in Sejnowski...
...love children, flowers and Touched By An Angel. I once even sent cards to my grandmothers for that fake Grandparents Day holiday. That's not going to happen again. But no matter how much I want to be a normal, manly, overconsuming American, I can't get myself to like dogs. I don't want to hate dogs. But I just can't imagine sharing my apartment with some dirty, dependent animal willing to trade unconditional love for canned food that, to be honest, I find a little salty. How can people love something so much that they're willing...