Word: psuedo
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Described a good deal more imaginatively as "exhaustively funny" on its video-cassette box, "Strictly Ballroom" is a catty, hysterical psuedo-documentary which takes a look at the catty, hysterical world of competitive ballroom dancing. Perversely festooned women and frighteningly suntanned men duke it out in this battle of the shallowest, as our hero, the homely Fran, tries to win the heart of a pretty-boy rebel who wants to bring his daring pasa doble to the Australian Grand Prix...
...activist friends would get the news. Rent control hurts the most vulnerable members of society for the benefit of a few people who get "a good deal" on their rents. It's the classic example of the "pull-up-the-ladder syndrome," as Washington Monthly editor Charles Peters calls psuedo-liberal programs that hurt the folks at the bottom...
...DINOSAUR had been living in our suite for a week before I finally spoke to him. Our floater, a Cambridge skateboard punk--now withdrawn from Harvard to his native streets--had let the psuedo-prehistoric monster in and then disappeared home, leaving us trying desperately to ignore the spiky invader...
...Harvard Square, a hive of cigarette-filled psuedo-bistros and bullshit conversation, the mug of coffee is no longer an un-self-conscious staple of a social gathering. Instead, it is the dainty focus of 1980s pretention--tiny china thimbles of eight-dollar espresso, or perhaps Ethiopian Harrar for the poseur with an international social conscience...
...Cecil Vyse (Daniel Day Lewis). Things would seem to be settled to everyone's satisfaction--Charlotte is safe in the knowledge that Mrs. Honeychurch (Rosemary Leach) remains blissfully unaware of her daughter's Italian involvement, Cecil is happy to have finally found someone who will put up with his psuedo-intellectual cultural arrivism, and Lucy is home in England and safe from George's clumsy if heartfelt advances...