Word: faking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...production staff has worked wonders, considering the Ex's limited budget. The set for Brock's "$235-dollar-a-day" hotel suite comes complete with foliage, statuary, and Louis XIV furniture. And the costume crew seems to have had a ball decking out Billie in sequins, feathers, fake fur and silver lame...
...Fake or Freak. The author has warned that there must be no critical truffling in his works for deep-lying meanings. His word games in Harlequins justify the warning. Butterflies, however, may be chased. Nabokov, for instance, taught at Cornell University after emigrating to the U.S., and his clownish alter ego taught at "Quirn." The Oxford English Dictionary directs the student to "Quern," which derives in its first definition from a variety of languages, including old High German, Swedish and Russian ("Zhernov"), and means "a simple apparatus for grinding corn." The second definition is "a large piece of ice." These...
...exchange of fire. The police then laid siege to the occupied building while French and Dutch authorities hastily acted to meet the terrorists' demands. One was that Red Army Member Yutaka Furuya-who was arrested in Paris last July after he was found carrying counterfeit bills, fake passports, and a plan for attacks on embassies and businesses throughout France-be freed. He was whisked from his Parisian jail to The Netherlands in a French air force jet. (Strangely, Furuya resisted the move so strenuously that when the plane landed at The Hague airport, he had to be dragged...
...Truffaut. Despite the guest list and a cake adorned with 76 pastry tracings of the master's pudgy profile, Hitchcock was less interested in encomiums than work. "My new movie will involve kidnaping and the adventures of a medium," he explained. "The medium is actually a fake, and so is the victim who is actually the kidnaper. So we watch two stories go side by side until they go together," he concluded cryptically...
...shows. They like the Red Sox, though, so maybe there's no risk. Richard Kneeland, who stars as Alfred, is reportedly a marvelous actor. Horovitz, you might remember, became a victim of post-Watergate morality after The Crimson revealed that a Harvard degree he said he had was a fake. Horovitz got fired from his teaching job at CCNY for his little deception. He also raised an important question: Which is worse, faking a Harvard degree or actually having one? Playing at the Wilbur Theater in Boston, tickets run from $3 to $6.50. Performance begin...