Word: pseudo
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JOSH HARRIS Serial entrepreneur leaves Net research firm Jupiter Communications in '94 for Web-TV Pseudo Programs, which went off the air last month. GOOD NEWS: Sells bulk of Jupiter stock this year, before 65% haircut BAD NEWS: Left standing with a 20% Pseudo stake in Chapter...
...pseudo-New Yorker and an American of voting age, public television this Tuesday night should have been nothing less than exhilarating. The major networks broadcast the final presidential debate, a contest that ostensibly helps to decide public opinion about the candidates. On NBC, the Mariners battled from a game behind in the American League Championships to try to prevent the Yankees from reaching what would be the first Subway Series in 44 years. The prospect of seeing El Duque, David Justice, Vice Pesident Al Gore '69 and Texas Gov. George W. Bush strut their stuff all in one evening--well...
Meanwhile, I'm more intrigued by the antics of 2Gether, the pseudo-boyband that has its own fake weekly documentary and actually recently put together an extensive concert tour. After releasing their second album this past week and continuing to spike MTV ratings with their new primetime series, 2Gether continues to blur the line between reality and TV so much that I'm thoroughly confused as to what exactly is going on. Do they actually sing? When they appear in public, are you supposed to call them by their band member names or their real names? What do their groupie...
...Gore's acceptance speech clearly contained the words of a pseudo-populist who is intent on inciting class warfare [CAMPAIGN 2000, Aug. 28]. As a member of the middle class, I resent being told that I am undeserving. I say it is time for a rational, principled approach. It is time to bring the various factions together in cooperation and not to incite class warfare. RANDY HOFFMAN Seaford...
...rather like Texas 50 or 100 years ago. The basic American idea of the basic Australian male is - who else? - whatsizname, him with the big knife, star of Crocodile Dundee. Aussies (wrongly pronounced Awzies; the correct pronunciation is Ozzies, though we'd rather you Yanks dropped the dumb pseudo-intimacy altogether and just called us Australians) are all supposed to be as straight as Harrison Ford or John Wayne, despite our superficially confusing habit of addressing a friend or a stranger of the same sex as "mate...