Word: spurious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buenos Aires the Bolivian coup had loosed anti-Peron wisecracks. One of them: "I'm waiting for L-day"-"What's that?"-"Lamppost day." And not only wisecracks. In the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, oppositionist Deputy Ernesto San Martino predicted: "The masses never forgive spurious politicians nor false leaders nor a clay idol...
This testimonial, typical of thousands, is the best explanation of why the networks ignore unkind critics of the soap opera. The housewives love it. Consequently, nearly 40 daytime serials, heard Monday through Friday, fill more U.S. radio time with spurious heart throbs than any other type of show...
...dark blotches in the early frames of your atomic bomb sequence [TIME, Aug. 27] are prints of holes in the photographic gelatin, which resulted from what was perhaps the greatest photographic overexposure ever made in motion pictures. The circles of spurious light in the last four pictures are not ghosts from the nonreflecting coated lenses, but light leaks through a hole designed for a clock or other auxiliary apparatus to be photographed through the side of the camera. The hole had a cover proof against ordinary daylight but not against the super daylight with which the bomb engulfed the camera...
...past . . . attached themselves and their destinies to the Axis. . . . The peoples of the world have learned that Fascist militarists . . . will stop at nothing. ... To defeat them we have paid a staggering price. . . . We shall not forget this lesson merely because petty tyrants are now assuming the disguise of spurious democracy. No longer can a self-respecting world . . . accept a government that rules through violence...
...clever play, with some pointed dialogue and a sophisticated art-gallery air, One-Man Show is spurious drama. It puts slickness ahead of seriousness, sacrifices the characters to the plot. But Jed Harris's shrewd direction-as has often happened in the past two decades-makes the play seem better than...