Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Helene Sigeau, and the other just emerging from the crises of adolescence and still struggling in the tolls of youthful lust. Both of them are seeking, amid the disillusionment of the decade before the war, some rock on which to build their lives. There are countless other characters: a fake critic, a great poet, a great statesman, and the dog Macaire, an hour of whose life, set down in six pages, gives us as vivid a picture of the canine world as all of Virginia Wolf's "Flush...
...book is heartily recommended to those who like the flavor of the old West, but are fed up with fake thrillers. It is a document in the history of that genuine Western culture, primitive as it was, which the expansion of the nation swept away. The only account comparable to it in conveying the real note of the cowboy era is that brief description written by Samuel Eliot Morison (of all people!) in the "Oxford History of the United States...
...neck, feet swathed in high heeled boots, dress distended by the bustle, or as Mr. Allen quotes, "by a kind of ambulatory showcase, or exhibition grounds,"--for such was the female style. There is a camera portrait of Mrs. August Belmont hugging her muff in the midst of a fake snowstorm. There are faro games, and the Klondike, Fanny Ward in "Pippino" and Maude Adams in "Rosemary". The drawing rooms of the Vanderbilts and the Astors vie in roccoco obscenity. Valeska Surrat displays the hour-glass silhouette which won her recognition as the Gibson girl and the enjoyment of generations...
...favorite Hollywood publicity dodges has been the practice of filling pictures with those of famous name, regardless of their acting ability; this genus of fake reaches its ultimate development in "The Prizefighter and the Lady." To begin with, Max Baer is cast in the leading role; then one finds wadded in here and there such notables as Jack Dempsey, Primo Carnera, Jess Willard, Jeffries, Strangler Lewis, and a positive swarm of middleweight, lightweight, anyweight champions, past and present. It goes without saying that most of these worthies appear for about ten seconds, and are barely visible to the naked...
...impostors ride expansively up Broadway. When Pearl recognizes the fundament of his Aunt Sophie who is washing a window, he plunges head-down in the automobile and Durante, with a vulgarity at once extravagantly bold and strangely shy, notes the family resemblance. In a broadcasting studio the fake Baron, innocent of an adventurous past, fakes an outrageous one. His "Vass you dere?" squelches all doubts, hugely amuses his studio audience...