Word: fakeness
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...Spain that Capa took his best-known photo, which purported to show a militiaman a split second after he'd been fatally shot. Debate over its authenticity still rages. The "truth" of the photo, says Kershaw, is in its representation of a symbolic death. "The Falling Soldier, authentic or fake, is ultimately a record of Capa's political bias and idealism," he writes, adding: "Indeed, he would soon come to experience the brutalizing insanity and death of illusions that all witnesses who get close enough to the 'romance' of war inevitably confront." In 1946, after more than a decade...
...years also served as a “disincentive” for students and parents who might fake estrangement in an effort to get out of the parental contribution...
...very few things it's better to fake. New self-tanning lotions work faster and last longer than they used to. But all have the same active ingredient, dihydroxyacetone, made from sugarcane. Are the pricey ones worth...
...have the same problem with the Olympics. We like those new fake sports we force the Olympic committee to include so we can win, like beach volleyball, snowboarding and major-motion-picture production. But unless the games are held either in America or Utah, we're not going to watch people pole vault. Unless they get hurt doing it. Then we'll watch it over and over again...
...visit Morocco every year, delighting in the North African folklore, agreeable climate and spicy night life. Al Tbaiti, though, seems to have been seeking kicks of a different sort. As he prepared to board the aircraft, Moroccan agents swooped in and led him away. They believe that a second fake passport and thousands of dollars in undeclared currency they found in Al Tbaiti's bags help explain his true purpose in the country: organizing a terror spree aimed at killing American citizens as well as Moroccan Jews...