Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only women who have ever appeared in a Hasty Pudding Theatricals production are men who have donned fake breasts, wigs and pantyhose...
...lives in turmoil because of adoption laws written in another era. Before the late '60s, states thought they were doing birth mothers a favor by confining their identities to dusty registrars' books. At the time, only "bad" girls got pregnant out of wedlock, and they were cloistered with fake names until they gave birth. Today, of course, that attitude seems quaintly outmoded. What's more, we have become sensitized to the rights of adoptees, who as they grow up want to know what everyone else already knows: who they are. "We are besieged by ghosts," says Helen Hill, a sculptor...
Surgical error? Medicare fraud? No, a deliberate sham. Bizarre as it may seem, fake surgeries--otherwise known as placebo-controlled surgical trials--are entering mainstream medical research. The first of these trials wrapped up last week, and others are under way. "This is just the beginning," says Warren Olanow, chair of neurology at Mount Sinai Hospital. "Tomorrow if you have a [new] procedure, you will have to do a double-blind placebo trial...
...course, are standard procedure for drug developers, who know from long experience that 1 out of 3 test subjects feel better with only a sugar pill. Scientists sidestep the placebo effect in drug trials by dividing patients into two groups--giving one the real drug and the other a fake...
While the cameras flashed and the crowd cheered, Jackson donned a blond wig and a bra made of two foam hamburgers topped with sparkling fake cheese slices--a reference to his "Pulp Fiction" role--to receive his Pudding...