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Word: faking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there always something futile, pathetic, uncomfortably personal about the post-script? Displaying its ostensible, self-conscious triviality like an impostor's fake medals, it challenges us to criticize: "Today only the critic executes the work (pun intended)." Yes, but who sentenced it to death...

Author: By Yoon SUN Lee, | Title: Writing on Writing | 4/2/1986 | See Source »

WHEN FRENCH playwright Jean Genet wrote The Balcony he noted that the best way to portray true good in the world was to force his audiences to confront true evil. Fake judges, generals, and bishops parade through a whorehouse, living out their petty hypocrisies and in the process exposing the so-called justice of the establishment as so many lies...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: The Crimson's Hubris | 3/5/1986 | See Source »

...believed in "blended" vaginal-clitoral orgasms. What the heck. It worked for Scotch, why not for climaxes? But no, the clitoral-pride movement got so strong it became somewhat embarrassing to admit that you owned a vagina or a penis. For all we know, women who used to fake vaginal orgasms for their hubbies began to fake clitoral ones for the women's movement. I guess you could call this progress of a sort. But do women really have to limit themselves to politically correct orgasms? Wanda, I stand before you as that rarest of males, a true feminist, calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: On the Trail of the Big O | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...picture, Scarpa is giving an up-fake to the very tall and very talented opposing center, a center named Patrick Ewing...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Harvard's Guard-ian Angels | 2/28/1986 | See Source »

...looked in and got the pass from my teammate," he continues, remembering every detail of a single play a half-decade ago, "and I just gave [Ewing] a pump fake. Unless he was trying to block it with his knees, I don't know why he jumped...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Harvard's Guard-ian Angels | 2/28/1986 | See Source »

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