Word: sham
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This ending is so completely unbelievable, so shamelessly ridiculous, that you and your friends will see what a sham romantic optimism really is. Afterwards, watch Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs and you’ll see quite clearly how conventional heterosexual relationships descend into shocking violence and degradation anyway. Then tell Magda how you really feel about...
...face of seemingly insurmountable odds, the Iraqi elections transpired this past Sunday with relative success. Insurgent violence was moderate, as compared to some of the most pessimistic prognoses, and Iraqi turnout was certainly respectable. In a country that has been several times treated to the pathetic theater of sham elections—Saddam Hussein was famously “elected” with over 99 percent of the vote in 1995 and 2002—the recent success of a democratic Iraqi election is a welcome sign of hope in the troubled country. We are thus excited that the Iraqi...
...London. The film was co-written and directed by Daniel Percival, a one-man VSDM industry; he also created Smallpox, a chilling mockumentary that aired this month on FX. Dirty War opens on a sight familiar from the news, an attack-simulation drill. The test is a sham--the responders are badly underequipped, and the casualty numbers are fudged--but the Minister for London (Helen Schlesinger) reports success, to "protect" the people from the truth...
...Nobel peace prize is—to say the least—a sham, and honoring him would be undignified,” Trager said...
...country?usually a developing nation that had recently shaken off colonial rule?Naipaul's modus operandi was to discover quickly that his hosts were relinquishing the gifts of civilization?courts of law, hygiene, tar roads?bequeathed to them by their European overlords and crawling back into tribal ritual, sham spirituality and chaos. He did this for more than 30 years, and when the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks took place and overnight it became important to know something about countries like Iran and Pakistan, intellectuals in America and Britain were grateful that Naipaul had already filled a whole bookshelf with essays...