Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reconstructed facts of her life, the movie documents Silkwood's story vividly, drawing in its wake a stunning depletion of the squalid life in her southern Oklahoma town, and graphic details of routine abuses at a nuclear power plant. It successfully avoids over-romanticizing Silkwood's role as a pseudo-reactionary, instead presenting the material without a slant while filling the plot with amazing detail and brittle, yet good natured humor...
Maybe such psychological explanations are mainly pseudo explanations. Maybe children want Cabbage Patch Kids because other children want them or because television says other children want them. Maybe they do not want them as much as parents want them. Or perhaps there are other reasons. A New York Times reporter in New Jersey saw five-year-old Eileen Napoli clutching a Cabbage Patch doll named Laura and dutifully asked the girl why she liked her doll. Said Eileen: "She has a real belly button.'' -By Otto Friedrich. Reported by Robert Carney/New York
...decides to make crime--blackmail, to be specific--pay some of the emotional as well as financial dividends she has never received for the work done. More than anything, Quayle, the Nobel Prize winner, stands for too many things. May can no longer stomach. The epitome of tweedy, trendy pseudo-intellectual sleaze, Quayle would be the last to write Eine Leerstelle; it is doubtful whether he could read it--yet he is the perfect success, giving the audience a Celebrity...
...matter: new Irans will keep popping up (in our minds) regardless. The empirical world can do little to dampen the appeal of metaphor, since it deals in what Historian Michael Oakeshott calls "practical" or "didactic history," a species of pseudo history in which what passes for analysis is the waving of icons...
...only in the first act: Myra is suitably awkward when Anderson arrives and she ridiculously fears that her husband may actually do him in for the chance at another hit and a trip to the Riviera. And Bruhl's lawyer Porte Migrim (Paolo Carozza) comes by occasionally to act pseudo-everything like the prototypical Westport, Conn. lawyers...