Word: fakeness
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...their usual places at the back of the "Straight Talk Express." McCain was doing phone interviews, voice raised a bit over the roar of the bus. It took us a while to realize we were not moving. "We're off schedule," explained an aide. McCain did a sort of fake lunge toward his staffer - a full body, sarcastic version of "why-I-oughta" - before she continued, "We're ahead of schedule." McCain, whose exaggerated gestures sometimes suggest a not very good character actor, opened his eyes wide in mock surprise, then narrowed them: Are you pulling...
...like the guitar), plus a microphone for vocals. Using these "instruments," you pretend to play along to songs by Nirvana, the Rolling Stones, Metallica, Radiohead, R.E.M. and so on. You're not actually playing--the instruments don't make any noise. The fun is real, but everything else is fake...
...think you're wrong. I think some of them are very specifically about Iraq, and I don't know if you can make a war movie about Iraq until we have some distance on what has happened in Iraq because I don't think you can make a fake movie by going to Marrakech or Death Valley and putting guys in desert commando outfits and having them shoot at extras with special-effects helicopters flying around and have that be more insightful than what I can get off of YouTube by typing in "combat footage from Iraq." Charlie Wilson...
...party associated with the current president). Opposition parties have had their pamphlets confiscated and most have been ignored by the media. In a situation like this, the Russian people are reduced to pawns with very little free choice. When threats, indoctrination and dishonesty are allowed to flourish, even a fake democracy loses the ability to maintain its disguise. The events of the past week would be absurd but, tellingly, they did not shock many. President Putin, hiding in the Kremlin and protected by favorable public opinion, has had a crucial opponent arrested for taking part in a demonstration. The timing...
...really gets the momentum going when you’re hitting shots,” Hallion said. “You don’t have to fake the intensity or the excitement when you’re shooting well. It was a huge part of the game...