Word: faux
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Before we declare 2007 the Summer of Serena, let's just remember that we've seen faux sister-act revivals. In 2005, for example, both Serena and Venus won unexpected majors (Serena in Australia, Venus at Wimbledon), only to fade fast. But tease or not, the game's most compelling personality--hip, brash, beautiful--is once again part of the conversation, which tends to be lively when Serena is talking. "She's a complicated person," notes Zina Garrison, Serena's coach on the U.S. Fed Cup team. "And the world is intrigued with people that they can't quite figure...
...year-old selves, Bennett lowered a stage-wide mirror that caught both the middle-aged actresses on stage and the middle-aged audience, staring at the women and sharing their discomfort. In the second act, the animosities festering in the two main couples explodes into rancorous fantasy in the faux-Ziegfeld "Loveland" section, and Bennett gave Sondheim's comic-poignant torch songs and novelty numbers a splendor that both mocked and deepened the characters' self-pity or numbness...
...perennial top seed DeLillo, above right, whose Falling Man is about a lawyer who escapes the Twin Towers, wanders uptown in a daze and moves in with his estranged wife. DeLillo's tone is crushingly earnest--has he made a joke since 1985? His characters speak in leaden faux profundities, and they're so sunk in post-traumatic ennui you can barely tell them apart. One day a great novel will rise from the ruins of the Twin Towers, but it's not Falling...
...Sego landed her blows, proving to anyone that harbored any doubts that she can hold her own against France's most formidable political persuader. In doing so, however, she often resorted to a hectoring tone, serial interruptions and even derision ("Are you wounded?" she asked in dripping faux pity after one exchange) that could turn off as many voters as it attracts. Sarkozy might have come on stronger if he weren't up against a woman - and if he didn't already have a menacing image for many French voters. Surely that figured in his courteous response to a moderator...
...captivating “The Lucifer Effect,” Zimbardo attempts to answer this question and explore its many disturbing implications. Any attentive psychology student can tell you what happened with the experiment: The situation got ugly very quickly. During the Thursday night-shift after the initial Sunday faux-arrests, the prison guards began forcing the male prisoners to engage in simulated sodomy. “Now you two, you’re male camels. Stand behind the female camels and hump them,” ordered one of the guards, in Zimbardo’s recount...