Word: ghost-written
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...more vividly demonstrated than by the macabre spectacle of Andropov's long eclipse. For months, he was nowhere to be seen as his colleagues insisted he was suffering from "a severe cold." In his place, a disembodied, ventriloquial voice spoke for the Soviet leadership in carefully drafted, presumably ghost-written statements issued in Andropov's name and in "interviews" in Pravda...
...there are only graffiti, polemics and school lessons." He goes on to find history "less an attempt to record and understand than a habit of reordering inconvenient facts; it is a process of forgetting." Naipaul understands that Eva Peron, the brunette who dyed her hair blonde, whose autobiography is ghost-written to conceal an illegitimate birth, is the appropriate symbol for a nation which has forgotten its beginnings...
...points in last night's game, because there were many. John Hynes looked nonetheless impressive amidst his rustiness as a Harvard varsity goaltender for the first time. Hynes made 25 saves on the night, and for the latter half of the contest turned aside many with a style seemingly ghost-written by Petrovek...
...unusual touch in Auerbach's rather lengthy autobiography is that it does not seem to be completely ghost-written, as is the manner of most sports books. Instead. each chapter contains an historical text by Joe Fitzgerald, a longtime Boston sport-writer including comments about Red from players, relatives, friends and enemies (including the references he terrorized for years), and a few pages of italicized comments from Red himself, which read like transcribed tapes. The result is, surprisingly enough, a lot more readable and interesting than most sports books, which are generally aimed at an eighth-grade audience...
...movie is so much cleaner than the book that it sacrifices any erotic appeal. No matter that the book was rumored to have been ghost-written and that Hollander probably never did half the stuff that she claimed. It was fun to read about her doing it with a dog. And a lot of people, if they remember nothing else about the book, will remember her earnest assertion that you can always tell the size of a man's sexual organ's by the length of his fingers. The I've been there and back narrative of the real Xaviera...