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...worker Denis (Florian Lukas), a budding filmmaker with grandiose dreams of success. In one hilarious scene, he shows Alex a wedding video he made in which he imitates a famous cut from 2001. When Alex’s mother wants to watch television, Alex and Denis film hours of fake news footage to reassure her that change is not coming too quickly into her comfortable world. When she notices a banner for Coca-Cola being hung on a nearby building, Alex, barely missing a beat, explains that a recent discovery has proven the socialist origins of Coca-Cola (backed...
Think about it: if we hated publicly, we might cause a huge brouhaha. There would be all sorts of awkwardness, avoiding of eye contact, forced fake hellos—who needs that? Better to hate privately, and smile tolerantly in public, give more genuinely fake hellos. This form of hatred is healthy, harmless, and a whole lot of fun. It allows us to have all sorts of lively conversation behind our enemies’ backs, and we all know these conversations are spectacular...
...with a vocabulary of only 225 words, opened up the joys and sheer, surrealist fun of reading to pre-schoolers. Also, the Hollywood producer who wanted to work with Geisel was his old Private SNAFU friend Chuck Jones. They were kindred spirits: Chuck used fake-Latin names for his Road Runner and Coyote, as Ted had for his Esso-lube beasties. The cute, round-faced Jones even looked like some of the more benign Seuss creatures...
...call for more relaxed core requirements dominated much of the conversation. Students named the three different Literature and Arts requirements and the obligation for humanities concentrators to enroll in “fake science courses” as specific grievances...
...make it, they can fake it." ROBERT ZOELLICK, U.S. trade representative, on Beijing's failure to protect copyrights and patents...