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...Guava, but they weren't pushing it in the song selection. When you have no hits, you can play whatever you want, and they did. There was a ripping version of "You Fucked Up," their anti-love anthem from God Ween Satan. They had a brand-new song, in fake French. Gene crooned it slyly, touching the outstretched arms of the crowd. "Voulezvous...croissant...Schweppes...fuck...
...Captain Fantasy," from The Pod, was tremendous. Gene skipped the electronic effects in favor of vocal stunts, sliding his voice up into falsetto and filling the spaces between lines with fake echoes, mugging theatrically all the while. For all the irony and foolishness, he can actually sing. And Dean can really play guitar. That's kind of their dirty little secret, and it's what makes the whole rock star act work. It was like hanging out with your buddies while they play some songs in the garage, and you're all pretending it's the Meadowlands. Only there...
...debating the efficacy of tipping, they are shooting (or, vividly, torturing) anyone who gets in their way, including themselves. It's Glengarry Glen Ross at gunpoint. The talented Tarantino has devised one bravura sequence in which an undercover detective acts out, for the benefit of the duped hoodlums, a fake story about a close call with the cops; easing from the past tense to the present and then into seductive fantasy, the sequence reveals how we all must be performers, acting for our lives. But most of the movie is Actors Acting: gifted guys (Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi...
...Board, in recent years, has prosecuted students for everything from shoddy footnoting to sadomasochism to making fake IDs. If it fails to hold an elected student official accountable for her betrayal of public trust, what kind of message does that send to students about the value of integrity...
Give us double reverses and Statues of Liberty and all kinds of trick plays. Try onside kicks and fake punts. I might even suggest a play my high school once used, where the quarterback and one wide receiver pretend to argue over signals while the ball is snapped directly to a halfback, who throws a pass...