Word: spuriousness
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...challenge is a bit awesome, for unlike the other famous portrayals, Truman is close to us in time, and had by far the most public exposure. An audience would quickly detect anything spurious or stagy in the performance. The acid test has already been passed, for after seeing Whitmore at Washington, D.C.'s Ford's Theater, Margaret Truman Daniel gave him her enthusiastic endorsement. Ending a sellout three-week engagement at Ford's, the show will go on to Memphis, Kansas City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle...
...matter that the story is perhaps spurious and that scholars have proved that the actual author of the letters was the Vicomte de Guillereagues, a Parisian man-about-town who dabbled in the study and analysis of passion. The metaphor still holds. "What woman is not a nun, sacrificed, self-sacrificing, without a life of her own, sequestered from the world?" the three Marias...
Moving in fits and starts, and fending off more than 100 often spurious amendments, the Senate last week approved the largest tax cut in U.S. history. Coupled with a historic repeal of the 49-year-old oil-depletion allowance for all but the smallest independent oil producers, the $33 billion tax-relief bill must now be compromised with a similar, although smaller $21.3 billion cut approved by the House. Under heavy pressure from the White House to act speedily to spur the nation's depressed economy, congressional leaders hope to present President Ford with a final tax package this...
...potentially tragic. In the prelude to the play's false ending, George confronts Doris with the alternative of leaving her husband to marry him or else losing him-and the dream he represents-forever. But Same Time, Next Year is anything but a tragedy; the conflict is exposed as spurious, and things go on as before. Both illusion and reality must be maintained: for in the end they meet and give life to each other...
Some of the material collected by the FBI was as sensational as it was spurious. It included reports that gamblers were paying off a Southern Senator; that three Senators were silent partners in a vending-machine firm that was linked with organized crime; that an Eastern Congressman had paid $40,000 to extortionists who were preying on homosexuals; that the sometime boy friend of a past President's daughter was a homosexual. Other files contained rumors about the reputed affairs of John and Robert Kennedy, of Eleanor Roosevelt, and of Richard Nixon, who was improbably said to have...