Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...meantime, make the most out of your juice. Many parents concoct a sort of pseudo pop by adding a little juice to seltzer water. In an ideal world, I would drink a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice every morning. But commercially prepared O.J.s are perfectly healthy and much more convenient. As a bonus, many are now fortified with calcium or come in pulpier versions for extra fiber...
...Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of “contemporary decadence,” like Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...
...your leg hurts," and try to run away. Of course my mother would then grab my neck and make me give a real apology. But the Chinese government could never be as strict as my mom. Is this what international diplomacy has come to--puerile finger pointing, posturing and pseudo apologies designed to admit nothing? To the U.S. and Chinese leaders: Put down your toys and go to your rooms until you learn how to behave! MICHAEL MULHERN Warren, Maine...
...great deal of variety within or among his songs. Most tracks find a particular musical phrase to repeat for extended periods of time. Even the most pleasant of melodies becomes grating when played at such length without change. Salvation from the repetition usually arrives in the form of a pseudo-bridge of 70s-esque strings, but often this gesture is too little too late. Tracks such as “Beautiful Days” and “Love is Psychadelic” attempt to hide their redundancy under a mix of deep-voiced speech and song reminiscent of Barry...
Johnson is a writer of some success—his pseudo-novel Jesus’ Son, comprised of close-knit stories, was recently filmed. In addition to novels and stories, Johnson also writes poetry, and from reading Seek you’d know it. His sparkling prose is simultaneously laconic and melancholy, marked by a sense of inner wonder as he travels around and talks, thinks and sometimes writes about it. He marvelously describes scenes and contrasts them with what their inhabitants are up to. “West Africa,” he writes...