Word: faking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never understood, in graduate school. Those teachers mistake novelty for innovation, and spend a good deal of their time contriving projects to stimulate their classes. Let the children choose, they say but only if they choose from a set of "officially-(approved) creative" activities: for instance, writing a fake Peace Corps journal instead of having geography class; or making an avant-garden environment form Daddy's old cigars and cigar boxes, instead of painting a picture of the most exciting day of the summer vacation. Not that Herndon didn't put in his time dreaming up far-out schemes...
...brace of runaway greyhounds that Moggerhanger has just entered in a crooked dog race. Later he finds himself both proposing marriage and consummating it with Moggerhanger's daughter in the lavatory of an airliner high over France. As for that iron lung, it turns out to be fake...
...sense of kitsch. Thus (to take only one example) the walls of the opera house are padded with red material which-as in leathery club bars-is buttoned in panels with rows of brass tacks. But real tacks would be lost in so big a space. The solution? Fake brass tack heads, Oldenburg jumbo, four inches across...
...things anger archaeologists and art historians more than being taken in by fake antiquities. A recent series of laboratory tests gives them good reason to be furious. A team of British and European experts, using a new dating technique, has reported that 48 of 66 objects thought to be from Hacilar, a settlement that existed 7,000 years ago in southwestern Turkey, are forgeries. The results of their investigations, published in the current issue of Oxford's Archaeometry, also showed that 25 "Etruscan" wall paintings on terra cotta, for which Swiss, American and other collectors have been paying...
...alone is thunderously exciting and imparts a startling sense of participation. But he has tried to do too much. Besides his obsession with courage, he obviously also wanted to say something about greed, honor and duty, but the themes never mesh. Dal ton Trumbo's screenplay and his fake Arabian Nights dialogue do nothing to help. There is much talk of "the coolness of my shop" and characters greet each other with such fulsome salutations as "Peace on you, O master of the stables." Miss Taylor-Young bolts across the Panavision screen flaring her nostrils and looking...