Word: faking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strides, wearing golf shirt and cardigan, wildly checked pink and green slacks and white lounging loafers. Forget the puffy, propped-up television image. On the eve of his 80th birthday, Hope looks fabulous. The hair that on his specials can appear fake is a rusty auburn on top and full and white on the sides. "It's thinning," says Hope, smoothing it back, "but it's all mine. I got a hair guy who tints it a bit for television. Otherwise the lights shine right through it. This fellow has a way of pushing it forward to give...
...became a science reporter because I love mysteries. But after seeing the workshops, I've decided that some mysteries should be left alone. Discovering that Darth Vader's dread Death Star is a ball of plastic is a bit like learning that Santa's beard is fake." At home, Thompson prefers the simple way of life. A traditional grandfather clock stands in his living room, and he drives a 1973 VW bug. Says he: "At least I can understand the car's innards...
...widely used until about 1860, is acidic and with time tends to tint and wear through the paper. Aniline ink followed; it disappears when the paper on which it is used is dunked in water. That is not a test many analysts try, since their document, real or fake, might vanish...
...such a vague rubric, Chia looks a very apposite painter. Granted, neither he nor his fellow transavanguardisti get anywhere near the best German art of this generation, epitomized by the grim, magnificently redemptive visions of Anselm Kiefer, 38. Yet it is better to lack the tragic sense than to fake it. If an artist like Kiefer can uncover the sublimated debris of Nazism, one like Chia can do history as comedy, positing his style on the mannerisms of Italian art in the Fascist period. He has an acutely caricatural sense of conventions and some sophistication about how to create...
...Fake-leftists cannot tolerate a revolutionary program which calls for breaking with both the Republicans and the Democrats. The one thing that they really cannot stand is people, like the Spartacist League, who say what they believe at all times, and who mean what they say. It hurts their relationships with the politicians on whom they depend who will not tolerate revolutionary slogans of any kind...