Word: faux
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Speaker's lobby just off the House floor, staffers had set up folding tables with packets containing a voting card, lapel pin and license plates for every member. Nancy Pelosi set aside more than three and a half hours for faux-swearing-in photos: the real oath was taken by the entire House on the floor just after noon, but everyone wanted a class-day picture with their families and the new Speaker...
...into the houses around his. Often at night he joins the neighborhood lookouts keeping watch on rooftops, eyeing the newly claimed Mahdi Army territory that sits literally across the street. "The situation is too much to bear," says Hamed, who wraps himself in a long brown robe lined with faux fur as he walks the neighborhood compound. "If the Americans cannot do something to help us, we're going to make our own army...
...bells and a million maracas. The Crystals' propulsive version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" might be my favorite Christmas song ever. This is a meticulous Christmas album: you'll hear rarely used intros and second choruses to go along with the excellent sax solos and samplings of faux Mozart. Like his singers, Spector was still a kid in 1963; he turned 23 the day after Christmas. And he still had sensational work ahead ("River Deep Mountain High'). But the Wall of Sound never got better than this...
...once categorically relegated to non-white status, groups highly racialized—like the Irish, the Italians, the Germans—are now firmly in the white camp. I’ll still poke fun at it, just as I jest about my father’s English-language faux pas. But her whiteness, or lack of it, is really non-negotiable. It’s whatever her heart and mind tell her, and that’s the way racial ascription should be: bottom up, not top down. I love her in all her non-white glory. It?...
...playful eyes belie his now-serious demeanor, making him appear as if he’s always in on a private joke. He’s wearing a knit sweater—blue, of course, the color he says he wears everyday to minimize fashion faux...