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THERE is an ironic appropriateness in the nickname of the Gramophone Awards that will be given out tomorrow night: the Grammies. First, there is the transparent crsatz casualness typical of that most transparently crsatz industry, the rock 'n' roll business. The name oozes bogus familiarity, a no-big-deal chumminess, as if millions of carefully watched dollars didn't stand or fall by the success of each nomination...
...decision to cut the shopping period willhurt students looking for Core courses, said ScottDuncan '89. "It's really good to be able to shoparound since so many of them are kind of bogus,"he said...
...that a complete genius and a complete rogue can be formed before a man is of age." Genius because Chatterton's verses were so prodigious, rogue because the young poet once wrote in an archaic style, artificially aged the paper, then claimed to have discovered the works of a bogus 15th century monk...
...virtually flashed in neon. Cobbled together from three stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the episode is a bit sketchy and disjointed, but Lloyd fills the screen with a funny yet carefully modulated portrait. Watch him try to con a tourist couple by rattling off a list of bogus screenwriting credits, casually mispronouncing Ninotchka. Or, slumped on a couch, lamenting to a friend (Dennis Franz) that he has come up empty on a script the studio needs that afternoon: "Put a fork in me, Lou, I'm done." Cut and print...
...Biko biography. The police threaten his cute family with errant gunfire and toxic T shirts, and the viewer is meant to recoil from these domestic atrocities. Of course they are horrid, yet their intended impact reinforces, in dramatic terms, the Afrikaners' credo: white lives mean more. Piling on bogus suspense devices as Woods snakes his way toward freedom, Attenborough lets the venality of South African imperialism degenerate into a staid chase film: The Brady Bunch Flees Apartheid. Once again Attenborough has proved that the road to dull is paved with good intentions...