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Gone are those concrete rectangles plowed into the backyard and surrounded with that plastic patio furniture that sticks to your legs. Instead, homeowners are installing pools with underwater speakers, fire pits--even fake lagoons that emit something the pool industry calls Faux Fog. Small wonder the average cost of new pools has leaped past...
...exception. At the group's national convention in Chicago in July, lots of the 5,000 boys and girls were decked out in crisp red blazers and power ties, many of them dying to show off their skills in "extreme leadership events," such as running faux business meetings and going through mock job interviews as prospective employees. Bottom line: you can excel at home ec these days without preheating an oven...
...clockwise motion to the head, for insanity. Then she launched into the chorus (?I?m young and healthy / And you?ve got charms / It would really be a sin / Not to have you in my arms?), plighting her troth, really pitching it, with a tenor?s full faux fervor. Allie took the second verse (?I?m young and healthy / And so are you / When the moon is in the sky / Tell me what am I to do??), and her voice was as pure as demure as Diana?s was brassy. She held the notes like a trained and poised soprano...
These days their kill-him-with-kindness target has shrunken to Bush alone, and the Billionaires keep their punchlines to a tight list of issues. Their schtick mentions Kerry only in faux-negative terms, but Billionaires are not allowed to support the nominee seriously. What to do, then, with the four-day binge of Democratic boosterism that is the convention...
...conceivable that in a few decades, Vegas will have completely shed its shame and its kitsch, that it will be a multidimensional one-industry town like Los Angeles, only more urban and with better food. Already the young and old come to Vegas without irony, and its widely copied faux architecture and grand showmanship are thought of around the globe as simply American. If New Vegas foretells something about America's future,then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost. The only thing I miss about it is that culture went to bed at a decent hour...