Word: faked
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...sharper editing would have greatly aided this production, as would the introduction of transitional scenes to add coherence. We should not be left in darkness for several minutes while the actors struggle to reposition furniture for the next scene. And the dialogue Burton gives her Japanese characters sounds fake when translated into idiomatic English...
...Rhodes: The Rhodes gives students from all over the world the opportunity to spend two years at any one of Great Britain's many fine universities: Oxford and Cambridge. These schools are almost exactly like Harvard, only their Deans of Students are English men with fake American accents...
...front of a Boston branch of the Star Market chain, protesters distributed coffee cups of fake blood to generate support for the ongoing boycott of Folgers coffee, the leading Salvadoran brand...
...pretty but underexposed young woman named Dinah Kaufman who writes soap operas in Los Angeles. Although Dinah likes sex and wants to be in love, the men she meets are either too strong or too weak, never just right. In fact, the reader decides, the men are handsome fakes, big-jawed 42 regulars snipped from a Ralph Lauren ad to act out Dinah's problem. They meet Dinah in a fake world, where no one has money troubles and there's nothing between Los Angeles and East Hampton...
...possible to publish practically anything in his homeland, Solzhenitsyn finally spoke out from his home in Cavendish, Vt. Opening his piece with the potent words "The death knell has sounded for Communism," he dismissed the years of "noisy perestroika" as a waste that brought about an "ugly, fake, election system" with just one goal: preserving the Communists' power. Arguing that the Soviet empire "sucks all juices" from the Russian heartland, Solzhenitsyn called for the creation of a Slavic state comprising the republics of Russia, the Ukraine, Belorussia and the northern parts of Kazakhstan, which is mostly populated by Russians...