Word: faux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that does not mean the building is easy to understand or like. Running its whole, three-city-blocks length is a permanent, jungle gym-like white steel scaffolding. The faux scaffold is inspired: it defines a long outdoor walkway, it plays tricks with perspective (Does the thing tilt up? Down? Are its beams parallel?), and its evocation of construction in progress makes the Wexner Center seem perpetually unfinished, excitingly open-ended...
...fewer Yuppies with dogs and baby strollers. One professional carrying a perfectly appropriate bottle of California white zinfandel said to her colleague of a newly made acquaintance, "I didn't give him a card, though. What a faux...
...jungle out there. On the Via Veneto, across 57th Street or up Michigan Avenue, animals that look strangely like women are prancing in herds, and spots swim before the eyes. The designs the women are wearing are not the real thing, of course, but thick faux furs and diaphanous fabric in sexy, primitive patterns. And the customers cannot seem to get enough of them: they're snapping up zebra-stripe blazers, panther-print pumps, fake tiger coats, imitation ocelot boleros and giraffe pants. Says a spokesman for Paris' Dorothee Bis: "It's the theme of the year...
...Leights and their partners are keeping the business selective and, for many budgets, prohibitive. Faux-tortoise cases to coddle a new pair of frames are available for $50 (less flamboyant cases are available gratis, with purchase), and Peoples does the same kind of careful detail work that Coasters and fast trackers like to lavish on their cars. One Optec Japan staff member is employed exclusively to hand color each nose pad to look like tortoiseshell. Mr. Peepers may not have been able to afford anything in the store, but he would have been tempted. As for Mr. Peoples, gone these...
Some students hissed. Then he acknowledged his faux pas, with a gosh that was bad, wasn...