Word: pseudo
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...guest list was no Harvard who’s who—this wasn’t the Porcellian, after all—but failed UC presidential candidate and Spee member Aaron Byrd ’05 was in attendance, along with pseudo-meta-movie star David Ingber ’07 of MTV’s The Real Cancun...
What unfurled was pseudo-Darwinian competition: those deemed “fittest” by the voting populace won—and deservedly so. The winners were the students who postered every entryway in their yard weeks in advance, the ones who knocked on doors and schmoozed with potential constituents, and the go-getters with enough initiative to draw up entire platforms. The losers? Kids (like me) grasping at whichever extracurricular straws were closest at hand...
...like a typical nightclub from New York. As we approached the front of the line, a woman with a clipboard scanned our outfits. “C’est bon.” As we made our way into the pseudo-cavern, I felt the pumping beats of the aged hip-hop. We were already pretty buzzed when I tried to get the DJ to play “Hey Ya!”—to no avail. We bought one drink each before we realized why a cool club like this has no cover (they?...
...like a typical nightclub from New York. As we approached the front of the line, a woman with a clipboard scanned our outfits. “C’est bon.” As we made our way into the pseudo-cavern, I felt the pumping beats of the aged hip-hop. We were already pretty buzzed when I tried to get the DJ to play “Hey Ya!”—to no avail. We bought one drink each before we realized why a cool club like this has no cover (they?...
...same might be said of Huckabees. Beneath a veneer of pseudo-intellectualism, the movie is, at heart, a joke. The plot seems to unfold in a parallel universe, a world where every citizen is required to take a college survey course in philosophy and then spend the rest of their lives discussing it. Mark Wahlberg, as a nihilist firefighter, is introduced having a fight with his girlfriend; instead of bickering over who did or didn’t do the dishes, he is trying to convince her that life is meaningless...