Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...festival's highlights were, predictably, the well known American entries. Huston's Fat City, and Ralph Bakshi's animated Heavy Traffic. A British entry, Ken Lach's pseudo-documentary study of a family and their "maladjusted" daughter, called Family Life, also drew a surprisingly large amount of attention, attracting one of those impossible, unpoliced Italian lines where people stand three abreast, and little groups from time to time try to shove their way to the front...
SATURDAY: Speaking Freely. Those of you who think t.v. is not strictly for escapists, illiterates, bored pseudo-literates, or lonely people, should watch this show. Heinrich Boll, the 1972 Nobel Prize winner for literature, opens up on a variety of subjects, including war, the victimization of the weak, and dehumanization in a materialistic society. Heavy stuff, true, but it might get you ready for Monday (then again, it may convince you to drop out). 6:00 on Channel...
When we were freshmen, we thought the Wursthaus was a strange name for a restaurant. If the place is that bad, why advertise it? In all fairness, the pseudo-German spot has a fine selection of foreign lagers and ales, but the cuisine falls short...
...staff with racism. Glodston who resented being considered a "black" first and a coach second, who wanted to get into serious football, who tasted the brand and atmosphere of Cambridge and pulled up roots for the greener and more expansive fields of Colorado where men are men and no pseudo-psychological bullshit is required or even considered, let alone practiced, where you tell a player to eat dirt or nails or manure, and he does it with the meniality of an army private at the feet of an impenetrable and grizzled sergeant-bastard-god-the-father. Ralph Goldston...
...clue to what has happened lies in the amusement parks. They are clean, bright, and-to some specialists-models of sensible urban design. But their rides and electronic puppet shows are plasticized, sanitized pseudo experiences, pedestrian reductions of fantasies and adventures. They boggle the mind without stimulating it. The same is true of latter-day Disney movies, often set either in a small-town America entirely detached from what is left of that old reality or in a scrubbed-up version of a turn-of-the-century world that feeds the nation's nostalgia for what it fondly...