Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FINAL TOUCH Timerman tosses into his salad is the house dressing of pseudo-intellectual speak. The finest example of this blather comes when Timerman is discussing with a friend of his from Buenos Aires the friend's plans for emigrating to Israel. Drawing a parallel with Camus' Stranger. Timerman remarks when his friend tells him his mother was Christian...
...documentary, the "docudrama" liberally tailors real people and events to fit the TV entertainment format. In recent weeks there have been two such shows based on the romance of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. Earlier, Jaclyn Smith starred in a docudrama called Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. In the offing are pseudo biographies of Singer Rosemary Clooney, starring Sondra Locke, and of Grace Kelly, played by Cheryl Ladd. Some of the subjects have been paid or are more or less happy with the results. Others emphatically are not. Gloria Vanderbilt was none too pleased with Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, a version...
...duration of the World Series, may not appear until late October), certain patterns have already emerged. One cornerstone show is Ripley's Believe It or Not!, starring Jack Palance as a sort of host-narrator who guides the gullible down shadowy byways of history, folklore, sociology and pseudo science. Palance, who has the congeniality of Robert Louis Stevenson's body snatcher, goes in for twisted smiles of irony, as if he were trying to bite open a marble. He is the only presiding television host who actually seems to pronounce ellipses. When he says, "Witness the death rites...
Gabled windows sit atop the pseudo-colonial façade. A sturdy elm offers shade for a manicured lawn. A flagstone path leads up to a hospitable front door. But 211 Pine Street, Mayfield, U.S.A., is not just any house. It is the home of Theodore Cleaver, infinitely better known as the Beaver...
...this very warping of the nature of knowledge that encourages plagiary, for it is precisely this pseudo-knowing that anyone can pass off as his or her own, with quotation marks or without...