Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shops. Last summer irate residents wore buttons declaring "No Man Is an Island" and "Ban the B." Native businessmen complain that he has doubled their rent and driven the price of land out of reach, while summer residents lament the canned "ye olde" atmosphere of Beinecke's fake gas lamps and candle-dipping shops...
...requirements, the membership can do no more than cause disruption, because it can never grow large enough to complete a revolution ... It is a weird sort of coffee-housing, especially if Black and White happen to be friends; it never seems quite real, nor does it seem completely fake...
...important wine industry by ingeniously simulating the taste, bouquet and appearance of every known type of Italian wine. Using a grizzly variety of waste materials and chemicals, they make wine in as little as eight hours (v. as much as a year for genuine wine). They then sell the fake brew to unsuspecting Italians and tourists as the real vino...
...authorship of at least one successful fake-wine recipe was attributed by Italian police to Celso Sereni, an alleged Ferrari accomplice, who was said in court to have netted $3,000 a day from his association with Ferrari's thriving "wine" business. He was described in the press as "the Doctor Faust of the grape...
Significantly, the court has not charged that the fake wine is harmful. "The aim of the adulterators is not extermination," said one Italian police officer wryly. "After all, they have to safeguard their market." Italians' confidence in their wine has been severely shaken; in some parts of Italy, beer has at least temporarily replaced wine on the dinner table...