Word: phoney
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...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...
...Rogers and Hart manage to pull it off. The star of their 1940 production "Pal Joey" is just such a two-timing. egotistical phoney. Let's not mince terms; "gigolo" may be too nice a word to describe...
...cartoon showed a restaurant kitchen, the type of fancy kitchen where they dressed up two rancid cuts of meat so it's almost worth the twelve-fifty the maitre d' with the phoney accent and the once-broken nose asks you to pay. In the middle of kitchen sits a meat grinder, a perfectly normal meat grinder with a lot of perfectly normal ground meat coming out of it. The only abnormal thing is that there's so damn much of it: at least 150 pounds or so, enough meat to build your own cow. Too much meat...
...Yard was always full of imposters in those days, Young says. There was the story of the phoney British earl who, in an appeal to the innate snobbishness of Americans, and the general gullability of all freshmen, managed to live off the Yardlings for a number of weeks until the authorities nabbed...