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Many Harvard students believed the made-up news about Kissinger as many will probably believe whatever the Yalie Daily should come up with next. So if some startling news should take the form of a Crimson extra this weekend, don’t swallow it—at least right...
Spotted: five or six members of “Wellesley Women for W,” on line at Toscanini’s in the Square. Looking more dyed-roots than grassroots, the heavily made-up pols placed their orders for hot vanillas by the score—Republicans don’t need caffeine, and coffee is so blue-state these days. The young ladies were clad in matching tennis polos, and though they were served, they failed to return any sort of tip to the baristas—perhaps put off by their “alternative?...
...Carmelite sisters of Dulwich Hill. In the 45 years since, she's seen no movies, and no more Audrey Hepburn - no Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's or Natasha in War and Peace. For Sister Bernadette, Hepburn is a distant memory. "I think it was just a made-up order," she says of the convent in The Nun's Story. "Yes, I saw that when I was young...
...popularity of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” is a good example of our sensitivity to context. Unlike other nighttime political humor on the Leno-Letterman-Conan axis, Stewart relies less on jokes that begin with a nugget of news, followed by a made-up punch line. For the most part, the humor of his “fake” news routine lies in the fact that it’s not fake at all…he allows politicians and journalists to mock themselves. My friends and I often blink in disbelief...
...column “One Night ’Stend” follows a question-and-answer format, and King said that “mostly made-up questions” would be used...