Word: faking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After all the fake chandelier and highheel glory of the Sheraton Boston I could stand. I flipped on my Rolling Stones tape to the beat of the ball game...
...frizz into a Cosmo-mane of curls, daubing her face with goo and powder. Sneaking a peek in the mirror, she is aghast. Her mouth is caked in red sludge. "It should have blood dripping from it," she jokes. The photographer is unimpressed. What Christine hates most is the fake eyelashes...
What Davis did not know at the time was that McCrory had gone to the FBI and told its agents about the hit offer. The FBI then planted a tape recorder on McCrory, provided him with fake pictures of "dead" Judge Eidson splattered with imitation blood, and later filmed the meeting between the two. Agents reported that they had watched and photo graphed as Davis paid McCrory $25,000 in used $100 bills. Then they arrested him for solicitation of murder. Now, in court, Davis sat and listened as McCrory's voice came over the tape asking...
...your new roommate has real all of Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, come right back at him with your A.P. scores (fours are dull), or your knowledge of physical chemistry. Lying is permissable, because no one will ever know the difference if you can effectively fake it. Make pronouncements about everyghing. Wear a log of preppie clothes; Locoste shirts and khaki pants are recommended. Topsiders are passe. Scoff at naive enthusiasm with a knowing, sardonic grin. Categorically refust to be excited or amused by anything with a knowing, sardonic grin. Categorically rufuse to be excited or amused...
Borrowed from a Lombard farm by an Italian artist named Antonio Paradiso, the beast, a massive bull named Pinco, stood ruminating in a corral in front of the Italian pavilion. The other half of Paradiso's artwork was a mucca finta, a fake cow, a four-wheeled chassis draped in a cowskin. It was to be wheeled into the pen, the deceived bull would mount it, and the results-as the Biennale catalogue noted, with the usual clarity of Italian art criticism-would touch "the central core of the present evolutionary-involutionary crisis." Finding the proposed event "degrading" (degrading...