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Known for his bow ties and his conservatism, Boorstin coined the phrase “pseudo-event” to describe a situation that was staged to get news coverage and mold the public’s perception. He offered the Nixon-Kennedy television debates as his prime example of a staged historical event...
...deep and meaningful questions designed to provide a glimpse of the user’s true personality. And just as the photos probably more often than not stretched the truth, answers to said probing questions turned out to be depressingly uniform, following an unspoken code of college-ordained pseudo-intellectual coolness where everyone’s favorite book was One Hundred Years of Solitude and no one ever ’fessed up to knowing all there was to know about that classic Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant tear-jerker Notting Hill—though I guess that could just...
...effect of a Cubist-style mosaic. Opposite hang blood-red abstracts painted on tarps or sailcloth, white Rothko-like spears slashing across blackened surfaces, and delicate, geisha-like figures trailing off into tendrils of action painting. The wall-sized Large Girl with No Eyes, painted in 2001 in a pseudo-Pop Art style, shows a close-up of a blond schoolgirl's face abruptly eclipsed by a blue-black swathe across her eyes. Maria de Corral, who is curating the show when it moves to Madrid in June, called it "a kind of antiportrait." What unifies the show...
...Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of “contemporary decadence,” like Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...
...reality-based TV show, producers plan to stage pseudo-election events that real presidential hopefuls undergo while on the campaign trail. Contestants will be your Average Joe, and they’ll be subjected to typical affairs that mark competitive campaigning. According to The New York Times, these include being “filmed as they campaign, attend real political events across the nation and produce political ads that will be shown on Showtime and possibly other networks of Viacom, whose CBS News is covering the election.” It all seemed like good fun at first glance?...