Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When he had patiently heard every last World War II remembrance and prescription-drug horror story, he boarded his bus, the Straight Talk Express, and reporters crowded around him like ants invited to a picnic. In most campaigns, a reporter has to grovel, scream or fake a nervous breakdown to get some chat time with a candidate. But all access, all the time has been McCain's way for years. Three senior campaign officials were squished against the bathroom door of his bus last week to leave seats open for print and TV crews...
...audience as they enter the theater, costumed characters mingling with the audience, free memento buttons and more flameproof white confetti for the snow scene in the Enchanted Forest. However, I noticed none of these "enhancing" touches except for those taking place on the stage. The illusion produced by the fake snow in the Enchanted Forest Scene is truly memorable, while equally impressive are the growing Christmas Tree and Sugar Plum Theater...
...most circumstances, low-rent pro wrestling is so flimsy and fake that it would be difficult to get oneself excited by it. But suitably starved for thrills, this crowd of 500 or so camouflage-clad boot campers swallowed the whole show with a hoot and a holler. We (and I use the pronoun liberally) dangled candy in front of the fat wrestlers, yelled for push-ups from the fit ones, and screamed platoon slogans at one another. The usual stuff, and loved by most. The Army is full of wrestling fans, like your local bar - and for a couple...
...clenched fist flew into Nick H. Weil '00 and instantly, the audience knew this was no ordinary Harvard show. Saturday night, during a production of the Gershwin musical "Crazy for You" at the Hasty Pudding Theatre, the fake fighting on the stage got out of hand and real blood was spilled. "It didn't hurt," Weil recounts of the stage fight gone bad. "I just whirled around as usual. I did everything as choreographed, and then as I was bent over, I saw pools of blood on the stage." But even after the incident, he decided to keep performing--after...
...Michael E. Capuano (D-Somerville) is waiting on the makeshift set--two chairs and a fake tree--chatting easily with the program's host, M. Yawu Miller...