Word: pseudo
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...those of you out there who aren’t regularly accused of music snobbery, congratulations for making it this far. Allow me to explain. For the past few years, Pitchforkmedia.com has been the reigning champ of online music criticism for that amorphous pseudo-genre we indulgently call “indie music”. Every weekday, their crack team of critics (including our very own indierati prince, Nick A. Sylvester ’04) post up news, reviews, interviews, and features, offering guidance to thousands of kids looking for their daily fix of interesting sounds...
...Scientology” (Oct. 13), by Annie M. Lowrey, presented only one narrow side of a disturbing organization. Lowrey’s human-interest journalism approach, focusing on an individual’s experience with Scientology, ignores the darker sides of the organization: its pseudo-scientific approach to medicine that has led to inadequate health care for the children raised in some Scientologist families; the criminal charges brought against senior officers of the organization’s leadership, including the founder’s wife, for harassing Internal Revenue Service officers while trying to obtain status as a non-profit...
...Angeles bounty hunter. She was recently found dead in her bathtub at the age of 36 after an overdose of painkillers. Scott glamorizes Domino’s life (ignoring her death except for a passing mention in the credits, since it happened during filming) in a pseudo-ironic and very unsuccessful way: he seems to both want to show Domino’s delusional love of her bizarre profession and to seduce his audience with that same seedy side...
...street is appropriated by the imposing presence of the twinned structures that stand like sentinels guarding Harvard turf. This impression is only magnified by the center’s position on the fringes of the campus. So much for fitting in. When asked, in a phone interview, about this pseudo-privatization of public space, Cobb said “Everything in life is a choice. There are trade offs. Preserving the garden was absolutely crucial.” And in order to preserve the community’s historic garden behind the GSD and CGIS, the center...
With the nomination of Miers, whose primary distinction is her loyalty to Bush, it is time to recognize that, in the words of Lionel Trilling, the Republican Party’s pseudo-conservatism has been reduced to only a series of “irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas...