Word: faux
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...Saeki encouraged the industrial designers to explore their new urban environment, but they were all required to attend a daily morning assembly. There are no in-house design competitions; team members build on their individual expertise in fields such as architecture, color coordination and interior design. They might sport faux-hawks, but Sharp's designers are decisively Japanese in their collaborative creativity...
...news article "Faux HLS Grad Faces Fla. Fraud Charges" omitted the first name of Robert Charles J. Brady. The article also incorrectly stated that Brady is currently taking classes at the Harvard Extension School; he has taken classes at the Extension School in the past, but is not currently enrolled in any. Charles J. Brady, a current Extension School student, is unrelated to the story...
Other striking writers have gotten out the scribes' side of the story in blogs and Youtube videos. Daily Show writer Jason Ross delivers an update from the New York City picket lines in the Comedy Central show's signature faux news style, conceding the producers' point that it's hard to measure the value of online content: "Online, intrinsic worth is measured in things like number of tears shed over Britney Spears by a heartbreakingly gay teenager," Ross says, before he is interrupted with a note that Viacom, which owns Comedy Central, is suing Youtube for $1 billion for using...
...immoral," rationalizes Arthur Rinaitwe, a 21-year-old student standing in the back of a packed rooftop bar-restaurant on a Big Brother night. His girlfriend, who had managed to grab a seat, nods vigorously in agreement. The couple come often to this venue known for its faux thatched roof, green foliage and towering statue of a giraffe. Up the winding bamboo steps are groups of men huddled around tables to watch a soccer game on one TV. An equally large, but mixed-gender throng has gathered on the other side of the bar to catch the season finale...
...ramblin'!"), working the balloon animals, exhausting the audience into submission. Even if people didn't understand that he was playing the character of a jerk, they applauded as a reward for his efforts. After years of one-night stands in cities with interchangeably bland hotel rooms, Martin and his faux-idiocy finally caught on. (Guest spots on the Tonight Show and SNL helped.) The nobody was suddenly...