Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curious datedness hangs over Playboy. The props never change-the stereo wailing, the fake gun collection framed in place on the wall, the satin sheets on the bed. One poor swinger who failed to keep up with his status symbols had to have the editor explain to him why there are so few convertibles on the market. Girls are still called chicks, and the cartoons are often 1930s vintage-elderly lechers chasing gamboling nymphs around the old yacht. Playboy fiction often features the best names-Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene-though not too often their best work. Playboy interviews, alertly conducted...
...great thing." Fitzgerald's reply is a lengthy History of the Simple Inarticulate Farmer and his Hired Man Christy in which he debunks the artistic pretentions of Boyd and others. "It amazes me, Max, to see you with your discernment and your fine intelligence fall for that whole complicated fake...
Sheehan did the Times presentation of the Pentagon papers and before that took the time to prove that large portions of a book chronicling U.S. atrocities in Viet Nam were fake. He naturally and justly decries the manipulation of the press, and cites the defense of the Vance's deposed skipper as a case in point...
...Misanthrope is not only a poignant and funny critique of society; it is also a study of the critic of society as well. If Alceste has a raging for the genuine, which he truly does, the final irony of the play is that he himself is a fake. He is a jealous friend, a jealous and self-indulgent lover, and his "frankness" in the famous scene where he criticizes Oronte's sonnet owes something to the fact that Oronte is his rival for the hand of Celimene. He is hard on everybody but himself, and overlooks his own transgressions...
...your own awareness." Yet, in his late 30s, he had failed to produce the Big Novel. One inspiration that Ibiza did give him, of course, was Elmyr de Hory, the elegantly elfin and occasionally bitchy art forger who was the subject of Irving's best-known book, Fake! Even though its reviews were good, Fake! sold fewer than 30,000 copies...