Word: fakeration
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...theater than I did in my studies, though I took them both plenty seriously,” he says with that mix of guilt and thinly-veiled pride that most extracurricularly-oriented Harvardians show when talking about academics. “I was always a bit of a faker as a student. I didn’t give myself proper time...
...Scott Fitzgerald wrote that about his great American faker, Jay Gatsby. Another faker, New Jersey Governor James McGreevey, last week finally smashed the rock upon which his world was founded: "I began to question what an acceptable reality really meant for me," he said at one of the most extraordinary news conferences--at turns lyrical, philosophical and evasive--in U.S. political history. "Were there realities from which I was running?" And then his answer: "My truth is that I am a gay American." That thunderclap was quickly followed by two more: McGreevey said that he had had an extramarital affair...
...favor of poor landowners. Unwelcome at home and in danger of prosecution, the upstart takes cover as a mute beggar. A touring W. Somerset Maugham is impressed by this bogus act of mystical piety and is inspired to write his best selling novel, The Razor's Edge. The faker becomes a celebrity and names his son Willie Somerset Chandran...
...retain its tint for millenniums. Wilson's conclusion, based as well on the eerie three-dimensional quality of the image's photographic negative, is that it is not, as Bishop d'Arcis contended, a cunning painting. "To try to interpret it as the product of some unknown medieval faker seems rather like arguing for the Taj Mahal being a mere geological accident," he has written. It "must have come into contact with a real body...
...reality, the harder it is to make something look real," explains Muren. "When it's a ways away from reality you kind of respect it; it has its own integrity, like a kids' drawing or an Impressionist painting. But the more realistic it tries to get, the faker and faker it can tend to get." Which, nicely put, is the dilemma of contemporary moviemaking...