Word: faking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sullivan's motto is a peculiarly apt phrase with which to discuss Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Tale. Set in the city of the Golden Gate Bridges--one of America's postcard-perfect suspension bridges--Kingston's work balances characters and cliches in a startling manner...
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book...
...them as the film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane. Among the footnotes to this classic is Steven Spielberg's purchase at auction of one of three sleds used in the project. The young producer-director paid $55,000 for the icon, only to have Welles later declare it a fake...
Fabrication, contrivance and artifice were subjects he knew something about. "I discovered at the age of six," Welles once told an interviewer, "that almost everything in this world was phony, worked with mirrors." His 1973 movie F for Fake is about the ambiguity of artistic charlatanism and, says Brady, stands as Welles' most personal film...
...real reason is to get us together and construct fake memories of the great time we've had here so we'll feel obligated to give Harvard our money. First in installments, then the balance when we kick. Unfortunately, the first event was such a miserable failure, I figure the Alumni/Alumnae Associations owe me about $20 at this point. Make it out to cash, please. It's for a good cause...