Word: faking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politicians and the press have been quick to remind New Yorkers that substance abuse was the tragedy's principal cause, they have chosen to focus on Ms. Steel's ostensible abuse of alcohol instead of the behavior of the driver who struck her down. After all, she used a fake i.d. to buy drinks at Dorian's Red Hand, the same bar that Jennifer Dawn Levin visited on the night of her gruesome murder two months...
What Ms. Steel was doing earlier that evening, an hour before, or even 10 minutes before, had absolutely no bearing on the tragedy. Perhaps she had a drink or two, and maybe she obtained them with fake i.d. It doesn't matter one bit; she was not jumping in front of vehicles. Confoy's car wouldn't have bounced off her body had she been behaving "properly" that night, had she been helping a blind man cross the street instead of exiting from a bar with her underaged friends...
...parents of Ms. Steel's friends are probably doing it. After all, they will sleep better at night if they believe that they have some control over their children's fate, that they can protect their loved ones from every imaginable evil if they convince them not to use fake i.d.'s, not to take drugs, not to have...
...eatery is also in a cage, its chairs bound in plastic wrap, its table umbrellas strewn with fake $100 bills, and its dust-covered tables laden with plastic grapes as well as real Perrier bottles...
...pass for a teenager, but that makes sense. The young Peggy Sue is "not herself"; she is older and on the way to being wiser. It is appropriate too that Cage, 22, seems younger, jerkier than his girlfriend, because, being a guy, he is. With his dinky voice and fake teeth, professing ardor in a gold lame jacket or smacking the dumbness out of his forehead, Charlie can endear or exasperate. Cage's brave turn teeters toward caricature, then tiptoes back toward sympathy...