Word: faking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this as his "Bergman film": lots of deep talk and ripping off of psychic scabs. But this film maker is, spookily, inside kids. He knows how the ordinary teenagers, the ones who don't get movies made about them, think and feel: why the nerd would carry a fake ID ("So I can vote"), and why the deb would finally be nice to the strange girl (" 'Cause you're letting me"). He has learned their dialect and decoded it for sympathetic adults. With a minimum of genre pandering--only one Footloose dance imitation , --and with the help of his gifted...
Life is a nightmare for most people, who went something else...People went a lesser fake of Beauty...We've seen Beauty face to face, one time or another and said," of course, so that's what it's all about, no wonder I was born and had all those secret world feelings. Allen Ginsberg...
...first meeting was with the Egyptian representative, Mohammed El-Kony, a total mediocrity. He was cheerful, insisting that reports of Egypt's loss of its air force were inaccurate. "We deceived the Israelis. They bombed some of our false airfields, where we deliberately placed fake plywood airplane models. We shall see who wins this...
...Bacon claims the company should have red-flagged the phony form because it was fake and witnessed by an interested party. The company, she charges, could have forseen murder as a consequence...
Ginsberg: Yes. That's because I wasn't in the actual war--I was in the media war. So I was just reporting what I could contact with my own senses, which I think was wise. I didn't have to fake going into the war because I was interested in the war's affect on my own and America's consciousness. I stopped with what I was actually experiencing through my senses and maybe only once or twice imagined what it would be like to be a thin-bodied Vietnamese kid blown up by, napalm. I wrote about...