Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Connoisseurs find the product slightly mushy, even when consumed with vodka. But at $5.90 a lb., compared with $24.50 for the real thing, there has been nothing soft about initial sales of the fake caviar. At the Okean (Ocean) fish store on Moscow's Prospekt Mira, where the pilot plant's output is sold, every scrap of the entire daily production sells out in only two hours...
...last week the genial Brent Scowcroft, Ford's national security adviser, was on the phone to the Pentagon. Did the Army engineers, he asked, create a fake mushroom cloud for a re-enactment of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima put on in Texas by a bunch of antique-airplane buffs? The Japanese were outraged. It turned out, to Scowcroft's relief, that Army engineers were not involved. But for a few perilous moments it appeared that the White House might have another illegitimate foundling on its doorstep...
Restic is most concerned with Case's running ability off the option fake, but is aware of his passing ability as well. "He can throw the ball fairly well, and he relies primarily on those short wide-out patterns. They like to isolate their receivers one-on-one with defensive backs in short patterns, something we should be able to contain," Restic said...
...prose poem called Lady Oracle that becomes a bestseller. Sudden celebrity as the author of Lady Oracle -which publishers promote as an irresistible blend of Rod McKuen and Kahlil Gibran-brings a blackmailer into Joan's life. Rather than face exposure of her multiple lives, Joan plans a fake accidental death by drowning. Thereafter, she hopes to resurface in a new life -one that will be "neat and simple, understated, even a little severe, like a Quaker church or a basic black dress with a single strand of pearls...
...reason: Balanchine's dazzling ballet Jewels, which had its French premiere last week, had been inspired 15 years ago by Claude Arpels, president of the jewelry company's Fifth Avenue branch. Dancer Farrell happily modeled some $10 million in sparklers at the store, but settled for fake jewelry in her performances. The critics still sensed value. Gushed Le Monde: "Suzanne Farrell is perfection in its purest state - like iridescent platinum...