Word: faking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Leo the Last, The Landlord concerns itself with a guilt-ridden property owner in the middle of the slums. Unlike Leo, however, The Landlord is a glossy, flat, fake Hollywood attempt at black social comedy...
...revivals was in full swing; the yellow satin sofa and chairs of the John Taylor Johnston parlor are a free adaptation of Louis XVI neoclassicism by the French-trained New York designer Léon Marcotte. Over them hangs a chandelier that cunningly conceals newfangled gas piping beneath its fake candles and pseudo-18th century glass...
...enough: a pot of common weed, thin and green. But this pot is not common or even really a weed. It is plastic marijuana, a perfect replica of the real thing, minus the taste, the smell and any sensory ups or downs. Only Cannabis Sativa Inc., which merchandises the fake plant, expects to get high on its effects...
...sorry. "You can't take it with you, and I'm not sure I'd have it, with all the gangster methods of competition." He boasts that when his bridal gowns and pantsuits are sold in West Germany, the stores switch his East German labels for fake Paris labels and double the price...
...stores were only too delighted to respond to the spell. Most took full-page newspaper ads celebrating serpent fashions. Manhattan's Lord & Taylor opened a special shop, "Great Snakes," last month, stocked it with everything from real py thon tunics to synthetic-snake robes, jackets and dresses, and fake python steamer trunks. At Saks in San Francisco snaky accessories are going at such a striking rate there are never enough around for a window display. In Manhattan, boutiques got into the swing, repapered their walls with snakeskin and offered esoteric items like the cobra patchwork belt pouches and spats...