Word: faking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian verismo style as practiced by Mascagni and Leoncavallo. Instead, he clung to his own romantic, melodious, bittersweet tales shot through with a uniquely warm lyricism and underscored with lushly singing strings. A painstaking workman who admired clarity ("The black scores," he said, "are the easiest to fake"), he left as his legacy only eleven operas. But 34 years after his death, the world of opera has not found a composer who can speak to the universal audience Puccini commands...
...France and picked up a vespa. Headed south, or something like south. Reached Switzerland before the bread ran out, and found a job in one of those international schools. A country club affair for various breeds of brats. The math teacher had the grippe and all I did was fake a college degree. It was a great job, all ski trips and German beer. Wrote the draft board I was getting educated and they lapped it up. 'Europe' has a ring of enchantment for the boys back home...
...warm day. In many U.S. cities, market cashiers havealso learned to watch for more elaborate devices for sneaking merchandise past the cash register: improbably distended bras (cheese and caviar), hollowed-out books (chops), a bagful of well-used baby diapers (canned goods), the false-bottom market bag, fake laundry packages (packaged meat), bulky, many-pocketed coats, stretch socks and slacks (candy and cigarettes). In a Chicago suburb, aware of a National Food Store security guard on her trail, one Spartan shopper waddled two blocks down the street before she let loose the frozen turkey under her skirt...
Dreamboat Squealer Elvis Presley, 22, got a 60-day draft deferment in order to complete a movie (TIME, Dec. 30), prepared for his farewell to soft civilian life by donating a trunkful of his cuddly stuffed Teddy bears, plus two black and white toy pandas and a fake koala, to the March of Dimes for auctioning later this month...
...family situations and such keenly observed detail as a wife's nettling way of pulling electric plugs by the cord, or how a small boy can reduce a kitchen to shambles in the simple act of trying to get a drink of water, or how two boys gravely fake taking a bath by wetting washrags and towels and tossing a handful of "turtle dirt" into the draining bathwater because "it leaves a good ring...