Word: fakeness
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...Young lacrosse stud G. Frederick Kemper ’05 put on his best Abercrombies, polished his fake ID and finally made the pilgrimage to the legendary Crimson Sports Grille. “Dude, this place sucks!” Kemper moaned, sucking sawdust?...
...past several years. When President Bill Clinton launched air strikes against Iraq during the height of the Lewinsky scandal in 1998, the press had a field day comparing the situation to the Robert DeNiro satire Wag the Dog, in which the fictional president commissions the production of a fake war in order to ward off scandal. A year later, when two high school students murdered more than a dozen of their peers at Columbine High School, the movie industry was quickly assailed for films such as The Basketball Diaries, which were said to have served as the model...
...passengers were carrying tickets for flights dated Sept. 11—the date of Tuesday’s attacks—as well as multiple fake IDs, knives and flight certificates from Flight Safety International in Vero Beach, Fla., one of the schools where the suspected terrorists in Tuesday’s attacks were allegedly trained. The ten are being held tonight for questioning...
...under Malcolm McLaren’s direction with the explicit knowledge that the Pistols’ true purpose was to drum up publicity for the King’s Road clothing store McLaren co-owned with Vivienne Westwood. Rotten’s claim that “only the fake survive” was used to incite a reaction among his fans, but in truth his statement was autobiographical. Vicious was unable to reconcile the sell-out aspect of superstardom with his belief in the tenets of punk rock, and died of a heroin overdose after the breakup...
...rare women?s roles) and the Mercury actors would play it for all its worth, with a thrill in the voice and, one imagines, a smile in the eyes. The tone was nothing so easy or derisive as Camp; its Victorian-era salesmanship made it simultaneously real and fake...