Word: faking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then it struck me! Would we have to fake our credentials? Would they let us register? Are we out of it all? We're married...
...That is how we feel about this eatery, which can--if vitally necessary--be found on the corner of Mass Ave and Holyoke St. The fare is motley, ranging from some moderately expensive dinners to some overpriced delights. The menu, filled with cheesy Shakespearean quotes, nicely complements the fake-brick wallpaper...
...same feeling of incompleteness extends from the depiction of the world and the characters to the story itself. Bowie leaves his young lover one morning and shows up down the road in inexplicable possession of a sheriff's uniform and fake warrant to procure the release from prison of one of the gang...
...competitive spirit now pervading science. Caught between the enthusiasm of his superiors and a federal-grant system that tends to award funds for results rather than research, Summerlin has been under enormous pressure to reproduce the results of his first experiments. There is no excuse for any scientist to fake his findings in order to gain more time to prove his theory. But any researcher who has ever submitted a grant application or sweated out a decision as to whether or not his work will be allowed to continue can understand why a colleague might be tempted...
Sturges's movies made most sterile American dreams look silly--or both silly and frightening at the same time. When last summer Central II showed Sturges's Hail the Conquering Hero (about a fake wartime hero who runs for mayor of a small town), tiny audiences doubled over in laughter for seven nights. But the commercial loss to the theater wasn't even offset by the full-house receipts from King of Hearts next door. "There are very few theaters now that can show a film like that," says Robert St. George '64, manager of Harvard Square, Central, and Brattle...