Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...around his desk like a fortress are volumes on the Boer War, the Civil War and World War II; biographies of the Founding Fathers; bound editions of the American Hunter; tough-guy novels by Larry McMurtry, Elmore Leonard and Patrick O'Brien. And, yes, the souvenirs: the ax, dripping fake blood, from a production of Macbeth and the sword from the movie El Cid. ("All things I've killed with or been killed with.") A statue of Andrew Jackson, given to him by the director Cecil B. DeMille, recalls another epic role. "Jackson was one of my favorite Presidents," says...
...FAKE ORGASM FROM OUR SPONSOR After seeing Clairol's Herbal Essences equate washing one's hair to good sex and Capcom's Street Fighter Alpha 2 hint at masturbation, are you ready for the next step--the sexual climax of a car? Below, excerpts from the storyboard of a Suzuki Grand Vitara ad filmed last week by HKM Productions...
Your item about the America Online chat with Koko, the gorilla who communicates through sign language, purported to be a "partial transcript" of Koko's chat, in which I helped to relay her signed responses [NOTEBOOK, May 11]. First of all, the headline LOVE DRINK NIPPLE FAKE was made up by TIME and was not a quote from Koko. Your piece, which impugned my veracity, included a supposed "transcript" that contained deceptive inaccuracies. You lifted selected phrases from the transcript, rearranged them and presented them as if they were verbatim conversation. Operating on "gorilla time" rather than Internet chat time...
...glimpse of President Clinton driving by in his limo. The impression was that they were drawn by the spectacle -- they weren't cheering and clapping, they were just staring at the huge motorcade. The Chinese met Clinton at the south gate of the city with an elaborate ceremony -- fake fog machines to add atmospherics, all these people in Tang dynasty costumes with elaborate headdresses, lanterns and weapons; a traditional emperor's greeting revived especially for the President. Clinton appeared to be enjoying himself and gave a nice people-to-people speech, staying away from politics. He noted that...
...hummable, creation is rarely attributed to him. "It happens to other composers as well, and I love hearing it." Tesh says he wrote the tune while in Europe; without a tape recorder or piano, he called home and sang it onto the answering machine, then submitted it under a fake name. According to Tesh, the song is the same pace as a fast break--120 feet a minute. "When I had to decide what the tempo was, I taped a whole bunch of games, then turned off the sound on the TV to make sure the tempo matched. This song...