Word: faking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supposedly fake Reaganites around the Oval Office who are blamed by the right wing for diluting the pure, potent philosophies of Candidate Reagan. "Reagan has clearly changed," Viguerie says. "You just see him moving off to the left on issue after issue. The people who are doing this [to him] are basically Eastern Big Business Republicans." The main liberalizing Rasputin: White House Chief of Staff James Baker. His Texas origins do not make up for his Princeton education, and even worse is his management of two presidential campaigns, Gerald Ford's in 1976 and Vice President George Bush...
...mother of a baby girl, was enraged when a construction worker would flirt or whistle. "You bastard," she thought, "little do you know I'm poisoned." New York Architect Geoffrey Meisel refused to go into bars for months after he got herpes, because he felt like a fake. "You're putting on this great front when you know that deep down inside you is this lesion...
...cast," the dance arrangements are sloppy and amateurish. Only about half of the ensemble demonstrates any real feel for the rhythm, and the rest make do with what they remember from high school hops. Worst of all, everyone keeps spilling into the audience to distribute flowers and fake LSD tabs. Yazbeck and Co. should worry less about drawing people into the action and more about the human demolition derby taking place back on the stage...
...roof of the bunker where Samer and Colonel Azmi were encountered last September. At the time, this roof was a room, an office, with straw walls, a straw roof, furniture and people. Over there stood the colonel's Swedish modern desk, disproportionately large and stylish. Red fake-leather chairs were positioned with their backs to the walls on two sides of the office. On them sat a dozen of the colonel's men-his inner circle perhaps. None spoke but the colonel, though all nodded approvingly at his harangue...
...Juan Carlos to crack down on leftists and join NATO (which Spain did in May 1982). The letter was not sent to the King but to Spanish journalists, who ignored it. The KGB allegedly circulated the letter again in November. This time several Spanish newspapers exposed it as a fake...