Word: faux
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...witness and a participant. “I like to put the onus of the experience on the viewer,” he explains. Such interaction is both physical and intellectual. His 2001 installation, “Sticky Fingers,” features a large bed covered in a faux-fur blanket—evocative, Biggers says, of contemporary representations of “pimp” culture. Viewers were invited to sit down or lie on the bed. By the time the viewer-turned-participant gets up to leave the gallery, “The work...
...whether Obama persuades or fails, Americans are listening to more than the faux-controversial snippets blared out on the Drudge Report. They're absorbing the serious arguments, weighing the options, taking the measure of a President who came across as confident, wry and eager to engage. (And who, yes, sometimes says dumb things and apologizes for them...
Start with the space: a grand, high-ceilinged dining room in downtown's Hotel California, with a black-and-white tile floor, lush faux-leather booths, refurbished chandeliers and, at its center, an inviting horseshoe bar. This is the second home for the restaurant founded by chef Eric Tucker - a wunderkind whose interest in healthy eating was spurred by a youthful passion for long-distance running and the realization that he was hypoglycemic. (See pictures of San Francisco...
...When you attend your 1.7 football games a year, you are probably delighted by the antics of the biggest bigot of them all—the faux John Harvard who prances around, flaunting his hatred of southern Europeans and their culture. He wants you to love him, but he doesn’t want you to think about how disgusted he is that there are Harvard students in the stands whose surnames end in vowels, and not vowels that are only sometimes vowels (so-called “weekend warrior” vowels), but work-a-day, knock-around vowels...
...bylaws of the Harvard Constitution after he noticed that plays and NBA games don’t begin until seven minutes after the hour. Tardiness was customary then: the professor went on to state that the American Revolution could have been avoided had the British Redcoats not committed a faux pas by showing up early to the Boston Tea Party. (I missed the first half of that lecture, but I’m pretty sure this is all true...