Word: phoney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work. I've sharpened every pencil within a five mile radius. I've shaved, overeaten, cleaned my desk, showered, made tentative plans to someday do my laundry, and called all past and present acquaintances plus a few phoney phone calls because I'm such a cut-up. I am now ready to begin my studies...
...nation's top legal theorists. They're delighted to find a dean who doesn't speak out just because he likes to hear the sound of his voice, who doesn't pull punches, professionally or personally. "He's a non-bullshit fellow and non-phoney. That's not the qualifications of the deans I've known," Gunther--who calls his colleague-to-be a "bright light"--says...
...another Dutch film, combines phoney detective dramatics with comic violence and political protest, but impromptu performances by Lene Lovich and Nina Hagen more than compensate for lapses in the story. When they sit together at a bar, spontaneously crooning up lost melodies and inhuman sounds in deadpan seriousness, they win the "Lucy and Ethel of the Eighties Award" hands down...
...that phoney Beatlemania has bit the dust...