Word: faux
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...anyone?). If there’s any justice, by March it will be common knowledge.—Eric L. FritzCat Power“Living Proof”Film symbolism comes in two forms: the indelible images of the true auteurs and the bumbling scenes of the faux artistes. Director Harmony Korine’s work in “Living Proof” is of the latter variety, suffocating a graceful song.Korine’s attempt to make a surrealistic feminist document begins with a pseudo-parody of the modern hip-hop video, as a baggily clothed black...
...leadership style, malaise over the handling of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s recent resignation. But Kirby’s long rumored departure was anything but unexpected in the aftermath of last spring’s Summers debacle. Rather than throw its hands up in faux-surprise, the Faculty might have been encouraged by an apparent recognition by Summers of the importance of having a dean who can facilitate a well-functioning relationship between Massachusetts Hall and the Faculty.Summers deserves the benefit of the doubt in the Kirby split, particularly given today’s announcement...
...screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce have concocted with the aid of game cast members who apply the scalpel of parody to themselves as well as to the material. To put this in simple English, Cock and Bull begins by dramatizing some events from the novel, then breaks open into a faux documentary on the making of a film called Tristram Shandy...
...wonder a panel of linguists chose truthiness--a word popularized by faux anchorman Stephen Colbert to mean "the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true"--as 2005's word of the year. A Million Little Pieces is packed with truthiness the way Dunkin' Donuts' Latte Lite is packed with Splenda...
While students may consider facebook.com a fun way to procrastinate and avoid work, joining groups with names such as these, posting inappropriate material, or appearing drunk in a picture could prove to be more than just a social faux...