Word: spuriousness
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Fairchild, now 40, has varied the once lackluster trade journal with sometimes effusive, sometimes cutting personality sketches of socially prominent people. The result has been a good deal of creative, if sometimes spurious, gossip. Fairchild has thus been a large factor in fusing the fashion world with the jet set. Women's Wear also runs pungent theater reviews by Martin Gottfried and hippie book reviews by Peter Prescott, whose father Orville reviews more squarely for the New York Times. Circulation has risen in the past six years by 30%, to 65,000. "Fairchild is responsible for reaching a totally...
...hippie subculture liken it to a super-Eucharistic ritual, one that has brought drug users, particularly of LSD ("the mind detergent") and the other synthetic hallucinogens, into epistemological experience and thus changed their lives forever. Detractors, many of them former hippies themselves, maintain that the religious turn-on is spurious, that true enlightenment can only come through "natural" means, the meditations and mystical experiences common to every religion in history. Still, in its variety and virulence, the hippie pharmacopoeia is the subculture's most valued possession (though...
...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...