Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caprice, Doris plays a cosmetics consultant whose specialty is industrial espionage-"A spy," she claims, "who came in from the cold cream." As millions of moviegoers now know, when Doris starts crinkling her freckles and batting her luxurious spurious eyelashes, a male star is just around the corner. This time it is Richard Harris, a conversation-bugging double agent whose talent consists of electronic gimmickry and histrionic mimicry (principally of Richard Burton). The deodorant and hairspray espionage is supposed to concern itself with the sweet success of smell. But along the line it develops that Interpol is also involved. Someone...
...protects the source from getting into trouble for divulging sensitive information. Over the years, however, too many Washington officials have become conditioned to making background material "not for attribution" through sheer force of habit. Washington Post Managing Editor Benjamin Bradlee finally decided to try to call a halt to spurious backgrounders in his paper. "Ninety percent of the information given by background," he declared, "could be on the record...
...bill is filled with two or three musical turns, a guest comic's bit or a mildly satirical skit, and-best of all-engaging conversations with guests who range in celebrity from Vice President Hubert Humphrey to people who are merely interesting-an Australian stowaway, a clearly spurious seer, a subway conductor turned poet...
...such ricky-ticky tunes of the '20s as Baby Face and Japanese Sandman. But when nostalgia dims, so does the picture's brightness. The new songs by James Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn are tepid at best, and Joe Layton's dance interludes are as spurious as bathtub gin, introduced solely to juice up a weak scenario...
...from the "impure" in radical politics has always been a favorite tactic for dividing the left, and if the history of the last 30 years teaches us anything, it is that those seriously committed to work for change in this country can ill afford to engage in this spurious debate...