Word: faux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the incident has died down, we can't help thinking that Watt's biggest blunder was not that he purged the Beach Boys, devout though their following appears to be in the Reagan White House. The more significant faux pas, we feel, was to place them with the most unbearably fatuous entertainer this nation is currently enduring. Wayne Newton. Surely the public outcry would have been diminished if Watt had not selected, out of all the singers in the United States of America, a man whose performances are the musical equivalent of toxic waste...
...example The Hunger, due out in April. In a decidedly against-type bit of casting, Catherine Deneuve, 39, plays a 3,000-year-old bisexual vampire involved in a threesome with Susan Sarandon, 36, and David Bowie, 36. With hot designs on toothsome Susan, Deneuve commits the classic faux pas of asking about a blood transfusion. "Not the greatest move on a first date," observes Sarandon. Indeed, but such is the foam that washes ashore in this bit of vampyorrhea that aggressively bills itself as "new wave." Quick, somebody fetch the stake...
...usage will become a punishable faux...
...Figueiredo held a barbecue at which both the food (beef, veal, sausage and lamb) and recorded American music (Willie Nelson) were hearty, even macho. At Wednesday night's banquet, the clos est the trip came to conventional pomp, Reagan stood to offer an elaborately friendly tribute-and a faux pas at the end. "Now," he said, wineglass raised, "would you join me in a toast to President Figueiredo, to the people of Bolivia-no, that's where I'm going-to the people of Brazil, and to the dream of democracy and peace here in the Western...
BEGIN HAS GIVEN Israel a terrible image problem. His harsh, vituperative tone manifested itself repeatedly this summer, often when he sought to defend Israel's repeated violations of the cease-fires to which it had agreed. His intentions may be laudable, but his faux pas are counterproductive...