This episodic structure occasions more disguises for the Queen and more pastiche numbers: ersatz Baroque, ersatz Pina Bausch, ersatz flamenco.
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It's ersatz, to be sure, but no more ersatz, say, than the world of Cusk's novels, where everyone the narrator meets happens to be instructively and tirelessly voluble.
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People with the ersatz patriotism fill up the space, hello.
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People with the ersatz version fill up the space, hello.
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Until then, handouts and ersatz pads will have to do.
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Others will act as ersatz defense attorneys for the president.
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The catastrophic revolutionary ideologies of the past were ersatz religions.
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My definitions included ersatz, brash, kitsch, offensive, gaudy, raunchy, inappropriate.
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Einer seiner Zähne war abgebrochen und er benötigte einen Ersatz.
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Trump's other U.S. properties have also become ersatz civic centers.
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But even here, there was something ersatz about the experience.
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One serendipitous result of the construction delays was the ersatz beach.
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Asians smile out of ersatz family photos in the model homes.
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Years later, around 30,000 households still depend on these ersatz roofs.
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All these free ersatz Airbnbs come with food, companionship, and storage space.
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In the ersatz note, Mr. Reines had Mr. Donilon praying that Mrs.
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Ersatz securities listings, called "initial coin offerings", have attracted unfavourable attention from regulators.
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The metal is very flat in color, making the statue seem ersatz, plasticky.
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The problem with the NCAA's ersatz deregulation is that it's only for show.
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The current iteration recreates that work but is, by necessity, an ersatz version.
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By unsettling coincidence, ersatz humans are on the rise outside of the movies.
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From there, the moderators drifted from one ersatz hot-button topic to another.
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Most impressive, though, is the way games are loaded on the ersatz Game Boy.
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The boy gets cheeky, and the ersatz governor sentences him to sleep in prison.
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But as ersatz, it's exquisite; and a fantastic introduction to the essential Mackintosh ingredients.
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Such ersatz family members can sometimes help students in ways that real ones cannot.
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On the main floor, ersatz gondolas with gondoliers ferry tourists from end to end.
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In Alternative Facts, sham notaries put ersatz stamps of bureaucratic approval on visitors' lies.
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Political scholars who have studied these ersatz power brokers, however, thought the answer was obvious.
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Now, all but one of these ersatz Democrats appear ready to rejoin their party's fold.
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The titular lighthouse is ersatz, built for the production on the coast of Nova Scotia.
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A previous demonstration, involving an ersatz Barack Obama and considerably more care, produced slicker results.
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Ersatz Twinkies frosted with Filipino ube (purple yam) or strewn with jackfruit and Fruity Pebbles?
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In its hasty fidelity, the production, directed by Michael Berresse, emphasizes those ersatz upbeat traits.
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Like an ersatz copy of a neo-impressionist painting, the funeral industry can only proxy sorrow.
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Liberland has a constitution (taxes are optional), an ersatz embassy and an online citizenship application form.
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A herd of bronze rhinoceroses grazes by the river that divides faux Verona from ersatz Heidelberg.
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Kushner had, improbably, emerged as a major policymaking force inside his father-in-law's ersatz administration.
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Well-meaning it may be, but this ersatz accountability is ill-suited to times of crisis.
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"History of the World, Part I," Mel Brooks's 1981 cameo-filled collection of ersatz historical episodes.
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Then Hersey spotted two men and a woman in war paint and full ersatz battle gear.
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Take Michelle Albitz, a Pennsylvania woman who lost more than $10,000 to an ersatz I.R.S. caller.
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I hold Sloth like an ersatz dirigible until he slowly, inexorably boops her in the head.
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Donut County, an ersatz version of Los Angeles County filled with donut-loving denizens, has some problems.
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It's easy for a writer to step out boldly only to tip into triteness or ersatz profundity.
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Interestingly, these later European examples of supposed Square Kufic actually also bear pseudo-Kufic, ersatz Arabic writing.
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On the sports field, the boys looked like athletes anywhere, in their jerseys and ersatz polo shirts.
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Forget fake news; the ersatz reality of bogus critics and advice givers is the way to go.
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Some hubcaps for regular steel wheels mimic alloys and have ersatz lug nuts molded into their design.
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These people are often not employed directly by the ersatz organizations to whose Twitter accounts they're posting.
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Among the cohort encircling the body in this ersatz morgue is a Bolivian colonel in military uniform.
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With an ersatz-looking plush cover that recalls airline blankets, the Gravity Blanket has begged for competition.
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" The film within the film also enabled Ms. Collins to contrive an ersatz Hollywood ending for "Losing Ground.
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" An ersatz version of what oligarchs crave most is marketed to them through TV series like "Downton Abbey.
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Lacking any alternatives, the two decided to create the ersatz museum in the entrance of their Williamsburg apartment.
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The Trump brigade loves the conversion narrative because it posits Donald Trump as "God Emperor" and ersatz deity.
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That's because, when it comes to whipping up ersatz abstraction, the ante was upped a long time ago.
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Compounding the pain for the N.S.A. is the attackers' regular online public taunts, written in ersatz broken English.
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It is an unfinished ersatz documentary, like the 211 [A] Hard Day's Night movie, that starred the Beatles.
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Check. The formula for an ersatz speakeasy is replicated to a T, as are the meticulously prepared drinks.
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Other economic development initiatives are ersatz themes and schemes shared by both major political parties of the island.
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When they realize that ersatz information webs can't really create the closeness and community they crave, they react.
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This supposed "translation" is ersatz, a phony rhetorical device meant to convey Western cynicism through a counterfeit Confucian motto.
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She keeps the stack of "bond notes" (Zimbabwe's ersatz money) bundled inside a sock in a plastic carrier bag.
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In Birdtown, the ersatz New York City of Neflix's new adult cartoon, Tuca & Bertie, even the buildings have boobs.
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He justified this decision through an ersatz public consultation conducted by the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), López Obrador's party.
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Around the agreeable leads is an ersatz family of misfits and music obsessives who trade banter and Replacements bootlegs.
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The unceasing cleverness in conversation wears thin, and the exchange of polished aperçus often sounds like ersatz Oscar Wilde.
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And I suggest assessing the environmental impacts of veggie (soy) burgers and other ersatz meats before condemning animal products.
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Continuing into the twentieth century, saloons served as ersatz campaign headquarters, where trades of votes for hooch were common.
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The first 20-minute test drives were conducted at MCity, an ersatz city managed by the University of Michigan.
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But they ran out of mummies and started producing ersatz mummies to mimic the condition of the Egyptian mummies.
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Other Republicans during the hearing attempted to reveal new facts and other details about the case in an ersatz trial.
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By which I mean it feels like a souvenir from an era when the domestic aesthetic was all ersatz nostalgia.
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But then, gig economies are ersatz structures, designed to skirt labor laws and offload risk and expense onto workers themselves.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PHILADELPHIA — Matt Freedman's SLAP-STICK at Fjord Gallery is a sort of ersatz retrospective.
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It's more ersatz — which means it functions as a comment on the core question of whether either Kevin is divine.
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IRA employees posing as Americans posted "organic" content to ersatz groups, which were then shared voluntarily by unwitting Facebook users.
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An ersatz author's note described the poet as "a virgin and a suicide" who had lived from 1940 to 1966.
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"Edge consists of individuals who create their own reality and do not accept an ersatz, appropriated reality," the website boasts.
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He backed his German friends in resisting efforts by Hitler to create a kind of ersatz Nazi-oriented form of Christianity.
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It was pure kayfabe, a storyline about how Miquela was a robot actually built by an ersatz Cyberdyne called Cain Intelligence.
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Over the course of the convention, Veca periodically interrupted the chill to perform live painting demonstrations in his ersatz man cave.
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However, white pop stars like Lady Gaga rarely, if ever, hear that ersatz compliment attached to their image or their work.
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We thought, like anyone would, that Halsey would emerge from some ersatz phonebooth, wrest the mic away, and do her thing.
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That might have led to the "honest discussion" Mr Damore claimed to want—and avoided the ersatz one about his firing.
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Before we get to the incomprehensible reality of John Fucking McEnroe as ersatz Jimmy Page, though, let's jump back to 173.
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But that's what these events are — ersatz rallies held for political purposes rather than bona fide attempts to inform the public.
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Faux crawfish, ersatz shrimp: They're less a matter of alchemy and transfiguration than sleight of hand in a circle of sawdust.
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The Chantry (a sort of ersatz Roman Catholic Church) creates an institution to keep them in line: the Circle of Magi.
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But since this portion of the pig is much leaner and therefore cooks differently, we'll bypass these ersatz ribs for now.
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"Lucas quickly found that the lucrative first-person voice could be ventriloquized; an 'ersatz facsimile' could be good enough," he wrote.
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Sometimes I chop the meat into nuggets to stir into eggs and onions for a kind of ersatz egg foo yong.
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They are pointedly artificial, emphasizing stylization over all else: the swirl of ersatz hair, the spray tan, the endless, endless gold.
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Perhaps she can: ersatz sovereignty can be repackaged as the real thing, and immigration may decline helpfully as the EU economy recovers.
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Ersatz city centres are multiplying now partly because it takes about this long after a financial crisis to begin a big project.
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Ersatz city centres, which can be built in low-rise suburbs like Sunrise or in built-up areas, bulldoze the distinction further.
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Hence his insistence that his "characters" (which implies an ersatz quality) are "personages" (which suggests they are not much different from persons).
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" Ms. Marshall called his melodies "so astonishing, so beautiful, so French — and not the ersatz French of Cole Porter or Jerry Herman.
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Upon arrival in an ersatz "psychiatric hospital exam room," VR 5150 visitors would be strapped into a wheelchair and fitted with headphones.
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The now wince-inducing Native Americanisms (and, for that matter, ersatz Native Americanisms) that became the overnight camps' lingua franca — Color War!
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Critics called it ersatz history and said the park would become less comfortable — "Some kind of Disneyland fake," one critic called it.
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The shoes remind me of how certain ersatz practices can seem perfectly normal until the march of history exposes them as absurd.
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Former appreciators, including Camille Pissarro, were shocked—catching an introductory whiff of the artist's rapturously cynical, gravely trivial, authentically ersatz sincere insincerity.
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The family imported herring and woad in large enough quantities to buy an existing estate and win a kind of ersatz ennoblement.
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This columned, ersatz-antebellum megamansion, in operation just ten days a year, has got to be the fanciest media center in sports.
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Freedomland had the shape of the United States and offered 50-foot Rocky Mountains, ersatz Great Lakes and late-1800s New York streetscapes.
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Instead, the Kremlin created an ersatz civil war, absurdly portraying the Kiev government as a "fascist" regime and the separatists as freedom fighters.
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Without salt to cure things food would spoil quickly, and the cold, low-oxygen environment of a bog acted as an ersatz refrigerator.
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GANs can use data (such as pictures of human faces) to produce new things (such as impressively realistic images of ersatz human faces).
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More often than not, the fact that we're watching an ersatz computer screen falls away completely, leaving only the drama of David's search.
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A group of ordinary people—complete strangers—would be thrown together in an ersatz "house" rigged with cameras and they would complete challenges.
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So long as visitors avoid glancing down at the Korean-looking fishing village on the shore below, the ersatz Germanness is rather successful.
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By the end of the course, your ersatz Master Chief will be shooting bullets within a real game scene of your own creation.
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But the faux socialist has proved himself an ersatz reformer, now more like a toadie to the golden girl of Goldman Sachs, Mrs.
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One day, Elliott watched him assemble an ersatz uniform of a white shirt, white shoes, and white pants taken from the donation closet.
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It keeps throwing things at you, and the more you learn about the ersatz intricacy of its "universe," the less compelling it becomes.
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Grow lights give the ersatz sunshine while a drip mechanism uses a small amount of water to filter down and keep them hydrated.
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The problem is less radioactive fallout than the rapes and murders committed by feral teenagers, abetted by Les Baxter's strident ersatz jazz score.
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Inside, a robot with hearts for eyes charged its batteries in an ersatz cave rimmed by silver stalagmites tipped with glowing white lights.
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"Atlas Shrugged" is a nightmare picture not of America as it was in 22018, but of the ersatz Soviet Union it might become.
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Communism, Soviet Russia's ersatz religion, has ended up as a gory failure, claiming tens of millions of dead from Moscow to Mao's China.
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If Bourdain's show offers a vicarious taste of an intrepid culinary expedition, the market will provide an ersatz consumer experience of his show.
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When she meets Mara, an immigrant masseuse from an unspecified foreign land, she takes her in as an ersatz child, much to Silver's dismay.
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A few hutong are preserved as an ersatz tourist experience, just as Ms Koike intends Tsukiji's outer market to become a culinary theme park.
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Fiction is ersatz life; it creates, under laboratory conditions, an unreal plane on which to conduct experiments that might help explain the real one.
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It is a sham, an ersatz impression of power that should be pushed to its limits—right down onto the hard parking lot floor.
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It also helps that Lynch keeps cutting to the increasingly impatient reactions of the man this ersatz Brando is "paying his respects" to. 2.
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The ersatz walls were then wrapped with a flexible "skin," of a gesso-like material, bearing a lush ink-jet printout of the frescoes.
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But, unlike the sugary ersatz of the circus, North Korea's concoction is coated with deadly poison in the mold of weapons of mass destruction.
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But giving them this ersatz physicality, and forcing me to think about the journey to visit them, they make Andromeda feel populated, coherent, and welcoming.
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But since the precise atomic details of the crystallisation process in IBM's ersatz neurons differ from cycle to cycle, their behaviour is necessarily slightly unpredictable.
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The music of Prince will from now on live as refracted by others, at karaoke bars or in ersatz jukebox sets or in cover form.
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Perhaps it should be no surprise, either, that its concept of ethics is every bit as ersatz and inconstant as most everything else in Tinseltown.
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She did hundreds of them and received plentiful feedback through social media, and they readily became not merely an ersatz sketchbook, but also a journal.
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The first, "Iroko," made interesting connections between Spain, Africa and the Americas, but to music by Manuel Parrilla (taped) that made the experiment feel ersatz.
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Last year it sued an Australian shoemaker owned by Eddie Oygur in a Chicago federal court, saying he sold ersatz Uggs in the United States.
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As an inveterate adolescent Walkman user, I found its use as an ersatz Proustian madeleine for Elliot's, Darlene's and Angela's childhoods to be astutely observed.
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She plays Ramona Vega, a glamorous veteran stripper who welcomes Wu's inexperienced Destiny into an ersatz family on her first night at a new club.
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Although some take performative to mean ersatz, that is not the main meaning of the term in speech act theory or its queer theory appropriation.
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In the arrivals hall, the seating area of an ersatz 1950s diner had been commandeered and turned into a sort of guerrilla legal-aid clinic.
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My judgment was almost immediate: I thought the pieces were derivative, just amalgamated and ersatz versions of Yinka Shonibare, Wangechi Mutu, and maybe Nick Cave.
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The current cachet for crisp, ersatz garments like Jesse Jackson T-shirts comes not from Americans but from the items' association with trendy Korean women.
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Most Sonos users have more than one speaker, and a surround sound system full of blinking lights would turn their homes into an ersatz light show.
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A Saint John-based group called the Sexual Abuse Network of Canada created their own ersatz registered offender map using publicly available information from media reports.
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The president's ersatz legal advisor spent the past year acting as a back-channel for all manner of shady foreign figures looking to bend Trump's ear.
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Trump and his ersatz Republican followers will be gone after he is defeated in November, but Ryan and victorious Republican congressmen will still be in Washington.
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But another reason, more historically minded, is for purposes of cataloging an oeuvre after an artist's death, for separating legitimate from ersatz and for preventing fraud.
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This ersatz weather fits the speeches uttered by the actors Nikki Calonge, Ugo Chukwu and Zoë Geltman and the songs composed and sung by Catherine Brookman.
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In her memoir "Uncanny Valley," she describes falling down a rabbit hole into Silicon Valley's strange world of six-figure salaries, unbridled optimism and ersatz meritocracy.
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At least two of these characters will be drenched in ersatz blood before the show ends, and all of them will be dirtied by black ashes.
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"I've been a big fan of yours ever since you were at the helm of … Aviato," he says, pronouncing it with Erlich's slightly lilting ersatz accent.
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Performers covered in Spanx-like suits stroked each other's hair in some sort of ersatz "Eyes Wide Shut" fantasy, the one sour note of the night.
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Desperate for variety, they crush it into matzo brei, a fried batter mixed with eggs, or top it with cheese and sauce to make an ersatz pizza.
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Daniel Handler's The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital, and The Carnivorous Carnival (Season 2 is two episodes longer than Season 1).
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Operations are relocated from the Justice Department to an ersatz grotto on the grounds of Mar-a-Lago, complete with live sea turtles, a taxpayer-funded d.j.
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Counterfeiters started obtaining empty bottles of expensive wine and filling them with plonk, and even created ersatz wine by mixing sugar water with artificial color and flavor.
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Obama called the legal removal of the ultra-leftist President a coup and pressured all parties to participate in an ersatz election that produced another leftist president.
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But this ersatz pope is the real deal, having worked for NASA for the past 30 years as a knowledge management specialist for the jet propulsion laboratory.
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Featuring an ersatz mountain dotted with Buddha statues, the rock garden of the Wat Prayoon complex is a haven of grottoes, pavilions, roaming turtles and fish ponds.
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To help persuade Kim, Trump had made a four-minute video extolling the possibilities of Western investment— an ersatz movie trailer, billed as a Destiny Pictures Production .
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"It just proves that all dictatorships fear any forms of satire," the ersatz Mr. Kim wrote in a Facebook post, "even something as trivial as an impersonator."
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Radical and often questionable ersatz substances like vinyl, Fiberglas™, wood grain veneer, velour, and injected plastics climbed into the car as symbols of technological sophistication and durability.
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"DC" clearly stood for "dozens of coplayers," judging from how many ersatz Leaguers descended on the Javits Center over the con's four days, rocking their best superhero looks.
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In Prague, the best way to get kitted out in ersatz communist products is to watch for the "Retro Week" promotional sales at Lidl, a German supermarket chain.
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Currently there are two lawsuits pending against both CSGOLotto and Valve, the creators of Counter-Strike, arguing that both are complicit in operating and maintaining ersatz online casinos.
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His take: It's the safest meat you can produce, and moms and dads will like the fact that their kids won't complain about the flavor of ersatz alternatives.
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Broadway seems to get a new jukebox musical every few months: There are ersatz Chers and Tina Turners and Carole Kings and Jersey Boys all over Times Square.
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The junior's department stocked the kind of trendy rags that looked like bad, ersatz Abercrombie, but nonetheless came through in a pinch for teenagers under constant self-revision.
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Instead of an ersatz West, Us stars Lupita Nyong'o as Adelaide Wilson, a woman who takes her family on a beach vacation, which spirals into a violent home invasion.
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And as the Nahmad show's forced attempts to link Moreau to late-twentieth-century ersatz postmodernism demonstrates, art historical expediency is as misleading now as it was back then.
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Rather than being a full-on confrontation, it was more of a vehicle for Domino to ruminate on her past by fighting ersatz versions of former teammates and herself.
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Television news showed delegates to the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's ersatz legislature, weeping for joy when Mr Xi's re-election as president was announced.
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Ersatz natives of these and other regions, Eko and Iko were like captured barbarians in a Roman triumph—a model toward which the pioneers of the circus clearly aspired.
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At its heart, this is a book about big ideas exchanged over small cups of espresso—or in the case of occupied Paris, ersatz coffee brewed from burnt barley.
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Having real muscles instead of these ersatz ones would make much more sense for a soft robot, since muscles, too, are soft, and are powered by glucose, not motors.
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Because cattle and dairy farming are major sources of greenhouse gases, the ersatz meats have the potential to serve the twin ideals of saving the planet and making money.
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Such ersatz effects point up the loss, for better or worse, of the accident of chemical processing, by which color becomes a function of time, the past, and nostalgia.
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The cast had been put together by Walter Pearce, a founder of the Midland casting and modeling agency, which specializes in the kind of ersatz, awkward models Vaquera prefers.
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Well, perhaps just one thing to add: Although this tower is still being constructed, it already reeks of ersatz historicism and a kind of deadly (and deadening) self-importance.
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He depicts birds by selectively painting out parts of ersatz patterned rugs — in this case with red — ingeniously finding figures in the carpet and giving them volume and vitality.
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Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who is of Cuban descent, won reelection over an ersatz "Hispanic" who had culturally appropriated his campaign name – Beto – to the disgust of some Hispanics.
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It's an ersatz vaudeville sketch about the last four performers on earth, and it's satire without bite, the fuzzy concept just getting in the way of some expert dancing.
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As Mr. Trump takes office this week, the beneficiary of at least a modest electoral boost from a flood of fakery, Mr. Harris and his ersatz-news website, ChristianTimesNewspaper.
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"I'm a loving caring tender man and I always respect my woman," wrote an ersatz wooer, beside photos of Mr. Swenson, in a snippet culled from a site called DateHookup.
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Residents pay careful attention to cars bought and servants hired; the Jhas' new neighbor, Mr. Chopra — he of the ersatz Michelangelo — can't even enjoy the splendor of his own home.
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The conceit of friendly locals renting out spare rooms has been supplanted by a more mercenary model, in which centuries-old apartment buildings are hollowed out with ersatz hotel rooms.
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Through the muck and the mud of the trenches, midst the ceaseless ersatz thunder of artillery, he dragged what was left of his failing body until a stray shell claimed him.
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Your columnist is among those who have found themselves turning away from Airbnb's ersatz authenticity in favour of hotels that do not aspire to be anything other than what they are.
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So insistent is it in this assertion that it has outlawed the street trading of ersatz dollars for the real thing: money-changers can face a decade behind bars if convicted.
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Was it summoned into his tiny cloth body through some arcane ritual, or did it emerge gradually as his ersatz-bearness took form in the hands of some Geppetto-like craftsperson?
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We work in a field rife with both real geniuses and ersatz self-proclaimed ones, where nobody knows everything and everybody is acutely aware of all the things they don't know.
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Gisele Bündchen refused to go on-theme, instead parading her moisturized and smug genetic superiority, safe in the knowledge that she was born to be an ersatz tribute to Studio 54.
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Such staples of the mainstream stage are exploited in ways that will make it hard for you to ever again sit through an ersatz Arthur Miller drama with a straight face.
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Dave Coulier of "Full House" turns up in the premiere (though not as a patient), and Mary Lynn Rajskub is among those scheduled for this ersatz therapy chair in future episodes.
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The Jackassonian Democrat , as the college kids called their version, featured white-hooded figures holding flaming crosses on the masthead and page after page of ersatz local gossip and rural humbuggery.
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The ersatz Chinese towns built to resemble Weimar, Germany or Henley-on-Thames, England have attracted many photographers over recent years, amused by the idea of whole cities that are counterfeits.
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Or is he, too, resisting an ersatz decorum, one he and his supporters call "political correctness," which they claim honors the feelings of everyone but the beleaguered white working-class male?
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The ersatz signifiers and hermetic communiqués of today's asemic writing represent one variety of artistic response to an information glut facilitated by machines whose source code is scrutable only to specialists.
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Here, orbs that seem to represent the sun or moon are not great, glowing celestial bodies; they are dull, badly copied, half-remembered objects that now seem like ersatz versions of themselves.
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Long before the proliferation of clickable multiple-choice tests from sketchy sites online, print magazines published all kinds of ersatz exams about everything from makeup to sex, and probably even makeup sex.
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These include the "sermons" Buck has given at an ersatz church created especially for the show: the "First Chickapaw Tabernacle of Hope and Holiness," a place where Buck can be really ugly.
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We started a few miles down Route 8 at Al's of Naugatuck—nicknamed "Rubber City" for the days when Naugahyde, the ersatz leather of the typical thrift store couch, was manufactured there.
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Watch any given professional meet, and one will see ersatz teams—Nike runners in this color, Adidas in that—as the manufacturers consume the vast majority of the runner's canvas for themselves.
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Some people I admire see today's student mobbism as an outbreak of an ersatz religion, but I'd say their theory of social change is at least comprehensible given the era they inhabit.
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The flea-market giant's arcane reputation looms large, and among the haunted dolls, gun-themed koozies, and out-of-print collectible card games, you will also find some wonderfully ersatz cardboard boxes.
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"Sleep" is rife with the hallmarks of Mr. Richter's style: a clarity that can seem like superficiality; an earnestness and emotionality that often come off as more ersatz and manipulative than personal.
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An episode from Season 2 opens with Kerry idling beside Kurtan on a public bench, sighing wearily, then asking the ersatz documentary crew if they ever get bored following the pair around.
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"I swear!" he said to the crowd in a definitive challenge to the regime of Nicolás Maduro, the ersatz President who has held office since the death of Hugo Chávez in 2013.
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An ersatz toe, made of wood and leather and found attached to the mummified body of an Egyptian noblewoman in Cairo, in 2000, is thought to be between 2,500 and 3,000 years old.
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Sitting in the frigid ersatz cafeteria during a short midday break for lunch, director Mimi Leder was acutely aware of the responsibility of making a film like this at a time like this.
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Groups of men dressed as ersatz women called Wench Brigades, as well as their like-minded counterparts the Comic Brigades, often delve into political satire — hence this year's inflammatory "Wench Lives Matter" signs.
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Scouring the best of these ersatz services, we compiled the best of these websites and apps, chosen for being either oh-so-obvious stand-ins or notable staples of their respective fictional worlds.
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The campus, which was designed with the help of consultants from Disney, is arranged as an ersatz town that encircles a central plaza, with shops and restaurants and offices along a main street.
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Like Season 1, the new season will span eight episodes and four of Lemony Snicket's original books; this time, it's The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, and The Hostile Hospital.
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And after seeing Mostly Mozart's staged performance — being confronted with its ersatz counterculture, unwieldy structure, and, worst of all, Bernstein and Stephen Schwartz's cheap rhymes and sentimentality — I'm no closer to appreciating it.
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Centered on Bloom's installation, The Reign of Narcissism (86873-89) — an ersatz neoclassical interior dedicated to a fictional version of the artist — the exhibition considers the intersection of interior decorating and museum displays.
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Over the decades, Nesmith used this position of ersatz greatness to meet not only Hendrix and Lennon but also Jack Nicholson, Johnny Cash, Timothy Leary, Douglas Adams and the guys from Monty Python.
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Outside of this minute population, literally nobody cares about, let alone reads, the ruminations of the senior fellows who staff Washington's ersatz think tanks, churned out to satisfy the whims of dotty donors.
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The settings often recall Saturday Evening Post covers by Norman Rockwell, whose painting "Shuffleton's Barbershop" inspired a Hallmark movie of the same name, and several productions have been filmed at ersatz pioneer villages.
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Through her digital manipulation, the underlying substructure of repeating visual motifs within the images are made more obvious,so much that the pictures become ersatz versions of the country associated with the passport.
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She lip-synced two handbag house ballads in front of green-haired and leather-draped post-adolescents at a rotting Hollywood department store that had been converted into an ersatz 80s Wild Style hideaway.
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At one point in Men In Black: International, new trainee Agent M (Tessa Thompson) and her ersatz partner, senior Agent H (Chris Hemsworth) land head-first into the desert known as the Empty Quadrant.
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"These are opportunists," says Valeria Aragão, a police inspector in charge of a 403-member counterfeit squad that in recent weeks has conducted raids across the city, confiscating all manner of ersatz Olympic goods.
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That works, but as any computer scientist will tell you, creating an ersatz version of something in software is inevitably less precise and more computationally costly than simply making use of the thing itself.
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Deletion is the second option, but the third and most popular category at the Hereafter Institute is memorialization, in which the ersatz institute uses personal data to pay tribute to someone after they're gone.
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That idea of boundless fecundity is sumptuously rendered by Lina Puerta who has created a scheme of ersatz, plastic foliage with dangling decorative chains and threads and pockets that bloom into iridescence, "Mẽãbema" (2019).
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The same week that Azerbaijan held its ersatz presidential election, a youth-led, non-violent protest movement was emerging in neighboring Armenia to bring down a prime minister that embodied Armenia's entrenched political elite.
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Drawn from her 2008-9 installation The Grotto — an imposing replica of Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion grotto made of charcoal-gray fiberglass boulders — the video was originally viewed through holes in the ersatz rocks.
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Mussolini's ersatz populism and propagandistic imagery set the stage for the decades after the war, when the romanticization of everyday Italians who were striving to build up their lives and nation became increasingly expansive.
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Clinton in prison garb, toting an ersatz jail cell — fits the same pattern: She had to be cast not merely as an inferior candidate, but as a criminal who could win only through corruption.
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Those numbers are modest against the background of the entire presidential campaign, but they show that the Russians were able not just to attract Americans to their ersatz groups but actually manipulate their actions.
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In the years following the war, purveyors of Vlisco fabrics became increasingly concerned with authenticity and protecting their business from the ersatz textiles (a slightly ironic phenomenon, given the company's origin as an imitator itself).
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The two ersatz athletes play a head-to-head televised charity match, as pros sometimes did, and it's described by sportscasters with the same whispery reverence used to cover a real golf tournament is covered.
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New York's foremost narcissist — whose Trump Tower, encased in fool's gold and bogus bronze, was the very definition of ersatz — hankered for what he regarded as the real estate racket's crown jewel of social status.
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Add machine learning, and a feedback loop of toxic audiovisual content can reverberate in the echo chamber of social media as well, linking friends with an ersatz intimacy that leaves them particularly susceptible to manipulation.
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After all, the president came into office a brand: one that, in his billowing navy suits and too-long power ties, his signature blond comb-over and fake tan, was redolent of ersatz 1980s nostalgia.
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When Jerry Brinson (Jake Gyllenhaal) decides to find himself as an ersatz firefighter, volunteering to help stave off the wildfires raging in the mountains, Jeanette (Mulligan), his long-suffering wife, starts questioning her own life decisions.
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We see, among other architectural features, the Villaggio's indoor canal and ersatz Italian village streets, as well as the glass dome and double arcade of Al Hazm, modeled on the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan.
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It varies greatly depending on the rarity of the car, but on average a car found to have an ersatz part instantly loses about 15 percent of its value, said Steve Linden, a collectible car consultant.
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As white performers blackened their faces with burnt cork, re-presented the black body in caricatured, silly, ersatz, inferior, horrible, and damnable ways, they were able to mark black bodies publicly as appallingly stupid and subhuman.
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It only takes a moment to grok that these objects are all ersatz furnishings — painted corrugated cardboard — and perhaps another moment more to grok that some other things are actually real within this carnival of illustration.
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The small number that haven't disappeared are now tourist attractions or bourgeois housing settlements—"a toy town, an ersatz version of the original dream," as Reece puts it, visiting what remains of New Harmony, in Indiana.
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Devised as an ersatz Achilles edgy enough for gaming in the mid-00s, all anger and very little pathos, the one-time god and long-time god-killer is one of the biggest dicks in the medium.
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From elephants playing noble ersatz limos for the freshly engaged, to the conspicuous absence of pigs on "Prince Farming," Chris Soules' very successful, very pastoral pig farm, animals are depicted (or not) pretty much as you'd expect.
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But everyone knows that Oscars are sometimes a kind of ersatz lifetime-achievement award, and it's hard to imagine anyone too upset that Bryan Cranston, Matt Damon and last year's winner, Eddie Redmayne, didn't get the trophy.
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In all, Citizen Lab said it had identified 73 web domains created by the group, 135 ersatz articles it had posted and 11 fake identities like Mona A. Rahman, often used as bylines on the fake articles.
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Vox's Matt Yglesias has argued against live broadcasts of Trump's briefings on the basis that they're "ersatz rallies held for political purposes rather than bona fide attempts to inform the public:" It's never good when politicians lie.
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Though police and military often use violence against protesters, colectivos do so without restraint and with total impunity — of the 26 deaths so far in protests this year, many have been blamed on this ersatz police force.
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Scripted stories strive to acknowledge that in their own way, whether syrupy melodramas and meet-cute rom-coms—but it's the ersatz verité of these gaudy dating shows that fully captures the shaggy unpredictability of passion and partnership.
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The ersatz real estate mogul offers some advice on Cruz's "Tonight Show" appearance before the Texas senator explains how he won all 34 of the delegates in Colorado, which held an unusual party conference without a full vote.
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The North uses it to try to convince the world that it is a thriving, humane country, most notably through Kijong-dong, an adjacent Potemkin village set like an ersatz jewel in a ring of blue-green hills.
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Though ersatz by comparison to "Achilles Mourning the Death of Patroclus," I don't deny some collective force surviving in this series of presentations of bodily sensation in disarray, but the uniform vertical gray ground tends to kill it.
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"Full of easy laughs and ersatz emotion," Vanessa Friedman, the fashion critic at the New York Times, wrote in her review of a Fashion Week play that Mr. Jonze wrote with Jonah Hill for Opening Ceremony in 2014.
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The Harvard Graduate Center was at best a mixed success: inside its rooms, with their cinder-block walls and drop ceilings, even a modernist might pine for the red brick and ersatz Georgian of Harvard's traditional campus buildings.
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" Wright rattles off the familiar stereotypes: "cowboy individualism, a kind of wary friendliness, superpatriotism combined with defiance of all government authority, a hair-trigger sense of grievance, nostalgia for an ersatz past that is largely an artifact of Hollywood.
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The ersatz summit, at which Mr Peña failed to tell Mr Trump publicly that Mexico would not pay for his wall, so enraged Mexicans that Luis Videgaray, the finance minister who had suggested the meeting, was forced to quit.
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But the announcement Friday that he'd settled for $25 million the three lawsuits against Trump University, his ersatz university accused of defrauding students, was still a little out of character for a man who brags about never backing down.
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Another is his ersatz partner, the Chinese government official and terrorist mastermind Whiterose, who we learn has been playing such a long game that she had an E Corp C.E.O. murdered for opposing her as long ago as 1995.
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In his extravagant installation "Space Program: Mars," at the Park Avenue Armory in 2012, he included a Japanese tearoom, along with a life-size version of a lunar landing module and other ersatz vehicles and equipment for extraterrestrial exploration.
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One floor up, there was a peek at the "Dutch kitchen," an ersatz fantasy of a colonial New Amsterdam tavern, built in the Grolier's previous quarters in the 8383s, when a fad for such interiors swept New York's clubs.
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He noticed that Nvidia researchers had also trained StyleGAN to come up with realistic images of bedrooms and had the idea to build his own site, thisrentaldoesnotexist, to combine ersatz room images summoned by AI with AI-generated text.
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The team's ersatz advertisements included exhortations on behalf of the Monongahela Metal Foundry ("Steel ingots cast with the housewife in mind"), Einbinder Flypaper ("The flypaper you've gradually grown to trust over the course of three generations") and Height Watchers International.
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And since it's a part of Google Assistant, that gives your ersatz secretary the power to add appointments it books to your calendar, and potentially update publicly available data like store hours based on previously made Duplex calls from other users.
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The Wachowskis have always been among our most open-hearted, empathetic filmmakers, but Sense8 even outdoes their 2012 film Cloud Atlas in the sense that it wants to function as an ersatz religious text for some far-future utopian cult.
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This phase of ersatz liberalisation hit a new peak in 2017 with rickety telecoms giant China Unicom, which announced in August it would divest 35 percent of its Shanghai-listed unit to Alibaba, Tencent, Didi Chuxing and others for $11.7 billion.
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Fans had to do a little digging to find the teaser, which contains very little other than some quick shots of settings from the fifth book, The Austere Academy, the sixth, The Ersatz Elevator, and the seventh, The Vile Village.
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There's a reason that claims of pulling a Beyoncé usually feel ersatz at best in the hands of someone who is not Beyoncé: Other artists, with their surprise drops, don't necessarily move themselves or their art forward, or re-conceptualize norms.
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That's both a comfort and a rarity in a world dominated by the ersatz and the airbrushed, of novelty food trends like rainbow-dyed bagels and super-size soup dumplings, or sci-fi kitchen experiments involving mortadella foam and edible balloons.
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" But beyond this grimy passel of hucksters and third-rate Hannity knockoffs, there has been a small number of conservative experts and thinkers—that is, people with graduate degrees—who have dutifully trotted out ersatz intellectual defenses of "reopening America.
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Michael Shannon is reliably hard-bitten as the cop, but too many of the Texas scenes, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson overdoing it as the main thug, carry a nasty whiff of the ersatz—an art-house fantasy of the redneck.
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Nicknamed "the prefab four" (as in fabricated, not fabulous) as soon as they came on the scene, The Monkees were aimed directly at teenyboppers, who could watch their ersatz Beatles every week on NBC-TV in their family living room.
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His 1997 stab at TV series stardom, "Dellaventura," barely lasted half a season, yet he achieved a kind of ersatz immortality on the small screen as the disapproving father in Madonna's 1986 video for "Papa Don't Preach," directed by James Foley.
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Yet Citron, who said she has spoken to women who have been the subject of such ersatz images, stressed that those depicted in them feel the same kind of invasion of sexual privacy as those who have had actual naked photos spread around.
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They speculated they could order a synthetic version of the killer's DNA from a lab, mix it with water to make an ersatz spit sample, and then submit it to one of the private services to see if it generated any matches.
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What's been remarkable about "Succession" — HBO's clever, cynical, Sunday-night portrait of ersatz Murdochs vying for control of the family company — is just how tied it is to the world of 2019, and to the world of its own most devoted viewers.
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Someone made a portrait of Bracero in the style of Shepard Fairey's famous image of Barack Obama—an ersatz block print of Bracero with his long beard and hard hat, an enormous smile on his face—and this became his public profile picture.
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One needn't be a libertarian to recognize that there is a difference in kind between someone's genuine right to be free of another's physical intrusion or displacement and someone's ersatz right to be free of another's merely offending or upsetting behavior or circumstances.
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Opinion: How a century-old war affects you A Wisconsin newspaper claimed in 1918 that the Germans thought American Marines fought like Teufelhunden, or "devil dogs"; the supposedly German word sounds ersatz, but the English version is still heard in the Corps.
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So much of what we look at now is airbrushed, laced with a complimentary filter and color-corrected, but encountering a wolf in the flesh makes you realize how all those ersatz finishes, meant to improve the image, actually kind of ruins it.
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Things like wallpaper and carpeting that tried too hard to effect three-dimensionality, cheap or ersatz materials imitating good or genuine ones, wacky proportions, and the use of ornamentation to gaudy excess all offended the reformers, who preferred elegant, semi-abstract iterations of natural forms.
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In one standout clip, Russian ersatz-right-wing-pundit Dmitry Kiselyov flat-out tells a group of journalists at RT being transitioned into government control that if the media says something that is not fact-based, but supports the government agenda, then that's truth enough.
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Street style has become an increasingly ersatz game, less about unique and the revelatory than marketing, with brands shipping clothes to popular stars to wear in theoretically un-styled shots — clothes they have not chosen, mind you, but been given (or even paid to wear).
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Once David and Marisol ride into Abraham's town — trotting down a dusty corridor lined with gawping town folk and ornamented by prostitutes — the mood shifts from ersatz Terrence Malick to imitation Cormac McCarthy, with charmed snakes in the church and Colonel Kurtz in the shadows.
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And she's joined in her effort by an ersatz "Scooby-Doo" gang that includes a cranky shrew who's been "spotting" Melody for years, a Kardashian-like mother and daughter, a jumpy desk clerk and a brassy Nancy Grace type with an agenda of her own.
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To anyone familiar with Haring's larger body of work — beyond Uniqlo's ersatz Pop Shop, Sesame Street, and generally misplaced 1980s New York nostalgia — the question "Was Keith Haring married?" or even "Was Keith Haring gay?" are like that old line about the religion of the pope.
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That's exactly what happens to Dr. Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz), who finds an unconscious but intact teenage girl cyborg head in the junkyard, and brings her back to his ersatz clinic to fix (in this world, where humans often have robotic limbs, doctors are also electrical engineers).
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Reuters reports that Pernod Ricard, maker of real-deal Havana Club rum (not to be confused with Bacardi's ersatz substitute produced in Puerto Rico and available in America), is celebrating the directive and hopes that opening the US market up to trade with Cuba isn't far off.
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When amateurism was fashioned out of whole cloth by Victorian-era English aristocrats, its ethos was strictly classist: snobby upper-class rowers didn't want to compete against unwashed bricklayers and factory workers, and concocting an ersatz Greek athletic ideal of no-pay-for-play provided convenient justification.
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And those generations may well embrace all this '80s muchness; may wear it with the dose of irony and glee that the artifacts of the past always seems to give those who experience them for the first time, even if it's in an ersatz fashion (pun intended).
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On conceptual and formal terms, there is something interesting about how Ingels takes one step backward and two steps forward, while avoiding some of the worst tendencies of postmodern architecture's kitschy, ersatz neohistoricism, yet there is nevertheless something rather generically corporatist about his 2 WTC design.
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The luxuriously overdetermined texture of Issy Wood's large oil-on-velvet paintings of clothing provide a perfect backing for the primordial shock of Ann Greene Kelly's aesthetically bifurcated folding chair — an ordinary steel chair, spangled with rust, that Ms. Kelly sliced and reconstructed with curving ersatz masonry.
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Built on a cathedral scale, the most impressive one enfolds a misty, dense junglelike world where paths lead among all manner of African, Asian and South American specimens — including banana trees, teak trees, spice plants and hanging vines — as well as water pools and ersatz caves.
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This week, a confluence of ersatz eminences trafficked the streets around the Vatican for the filming of a Netflix drama about the relationship between Pope Francis, played by his Welsh doppelgänger Jonathan Pryce, and Benedict XVI, played by Anthony Hopkins, during the papal transition of 2013.
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But in a locker room at a college gym here, the cheers from an ersatz karate tournament echoing outside like glories past, it didn't take much prompting for Mr. Zabka to break down the injustice of Johnny's infamy: There was Daniel's cheap shot on the beach.
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For all of Donald Trump's hourly oratorical outrages, his ersatz beef-and-wine inventory and the activities of his thin-lipped mashers at rallies, she's just as focused on Clinton's likely role as the first woman to win the nomination of a major American political party.
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Star-Lord and Gamora, the ersatz Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham in this scenario, basically just argue about the fact that he thinks they have an unspoken Sam and Diane thing going on and she has no freaking idea what Cheers is, being from another planet and all.
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He moved in all the old rugs from his living room in Philly, making an ersatz recreation of his former home, but also revisited his favourite records from the city: albums like Neil Young's Tonight's The Night and the greatest of all LA records, Warren Zevon's Warren Zevon.
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Seeing how consumers go loco for the ersatz baby backs when they appear at McD's, why wouldn't the US military want to provide a similar treat for the hardworking men and women on the battlefield in Iraq, Afghanistan, and—perhaps coming soon to a theater near you—North Korea?
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With active shooter scenarios apparently on the rise—or at least increasingly covered in the media—and the number of gun homicides in the US remaining 25 times higher than most other high-income nations, this ersatz house, with all of its fake furniture, is still arrestingly real.
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Amazon's own Kindle is a better option for dedicated young readers, and book purists might turn their noses up at stories told via an ersatz iMessage app, but parents will likely enjoy being able to hand their phones to their offspring and know they're reading something intellectually stimulating.
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Senator Joe Donnelly used to hold this seat and no doubt his well-funded campaign will be working hard to turn out his old base, which is heavily Catholic (Notre Dame is in this district) and consists of many ersatz Democrats who vote Republican because they're pro-life.
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Sure, being an ersatz adult meant that I could do all the things my teenage id yearned to do — drink alcohol, take drugs and (try to) have sex — but it didn't mean that I could forget the ordeals my father put me through on the highways of Chicagoland.
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After answering the warm-up question about my strengths and weaknesss, which I was allowed to watch and redo as many times as I wanted, I recorded an ersatz interview where I had to talk about topics such as a time I faced a challenge with a team.
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Just as the oversize curves of shoulders at Chanel, where full-coverage clothes seemed the order of the day, from skirts tentlike and midcalf or skinny and spilling long under tunics to thigh-high leather boots and detachable gauntlet sleeves, couldn't compete with the ersatz monument around them.
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But after watching the rough cuts a few months later, Zucker and his top reality-TV executive, Jeff Gaspin, could see that the scenes of Trump sitting in judgment inside the ersatz boardroom that NBC had built for him inside Trump Tower were the best part of the show.
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By incredible fortune, my restaurant, Prune, had an adjacent empty lot in the early years, where I built an ersatz pit from the yard's rubble (cinder blocks and cobblestone, rebar and duct tape, essentially) and spit-roasted whole lambs all day on Easter Sunday in keeping with tradition.
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Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public Doug MacMillan and Robert McMillan have a blockbuster today about how Google identified a significant data vulnerability in Google+, didn't tell anyone about it, and are now shutting down the consumer-facing parts of its ersatz social network for good.
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There is no photographic or linguistic food porn, or suggested serving sizes—just small, grey illustrations, ersatz headnotes with guidance like, "If you can love these misshapen, lumpy, bumpy little rocks, you can sure as hell love your own wonderful body," leading into walk-through directions for Toffee Apple Rock Cakes.
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Her second piece, "Sparkles" (2017), involved laying down on a red plastic tarp to make an ersatz carpet she encouraged people to walk on, then peeling off her cat suit down to her underwear and then washing herself with a sponge dipped into a bowl of water mixed with Palmolive soap.
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A cozy viewing room — table and chairs, curtains, low ceiling — has been set up in the Manila gallery, creating an ersatz but appealing atmosphere typical of late-night dive bars and strip clubs, where the sources of light are few; here the only one is the video (and the video is the stage).
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Political activists who would normally be indifferent or perhaps broadly favorable to her ersatz feminist apparel marketing are instead now interested in making sure she pays a price for her diligent work on behalf of an administration committed to banning abortion, gutting the welfare state, deporting immigrants en masse, and stealing Iraqi oil.
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ELK POINT, S.D. (Reuters) - In this rural outpost of just over 1,900 residents, a local college student has become a courtroom sketch artist, trailers on Main Street are ersatz offices for a major law firm and members of an agricultural youth club are puzzled by a new metal detector at the local courthouse.
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This seems to support the argument, advanced by Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner among others, that support for populism correlates with a kind of communal breakdown, in which secularization is one variable among many leaving people feeling isolated and angry, and drawing them to the ersatz solidarity of white identity politics.
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Instead, he offers an anodyne call for civility, and to the extent that he rebukes any faction of the Republican Party it's his own ersatz-Randian faction: There was a time when I would talk about a difference between "makers" and "takers" in our country, referring to people who accepted government benefits.
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Her camera lingers on the medical equipment left over from Ollie and Deb's late mother's long fight with cancer; the bottles of beer stacked haphazardly in the washed-out dorm-like accommodations for men who work on the oil rigs; the ramshackle, dilapidated buildings; the ersatz parking lot trailer park Deb has made her home.
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Federal agencies have long dispersed official "challenge coins" to boost morale among employees, but at a time when the brutal conditions at Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities where migrants are being detained are a source of major controversy, these ersatz versions are the latest indication of how much Border Patrol agents hate their jobs.
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Perhaps the most daunting barrier to entry for aspiring esports fans—and undue burden on the players—is the sundry competitions, a dazzling array of ersatz contests and leagues going off, overlapping, and winking out like fireworks displays, owned and operated by independent third-party organizers lacking in the rigid structure imposed upon traditional sports.
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Fsociety, it seems, is fresh out of ideas, a fact best encapsulated by a scene in which their ersatz leader, Elliot's sister Darlene, alternates a distinctly Bush-esque speech ("that's low," she says when this comparison is made by one of her underlings) with stomping on a colleague's surprisingly durable smartphone in a frustrated rage.
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It's not the sort of business in which firms go looking for morally upright corporations—the sort with whom we'd not worry about our politicians having untrammeled contact—to invest in, let alone ones that don't pay multimillion dollar settlements for paying doctors to run ersatz pill mills or invest in suicidal fossil fuel extraction.
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As Dr. Videovich, "specialist in curing television addiction," Mr. Davidovich, dressed in a white lab coat, fielded calls from viewers, introduced ersatz commercials and, in a segment called "Videokitsch," sold odd pieces of store-bought merchandise and limited-edition objects of his own design, like television sets in the form of savings banks, cookie jars, planters and windup toys.
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The clubhouse — full of books and photographs and, rather disappointingly, gas fireplaces with ersatz logs — is nowhere near as majestic as the real-deal oak tree that stands in front of it, providing a shady meeting ground for all those extended chats that the Masters encourages as long as someone is not pulling rank or lining up a putt.
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The weekend is planned down to the minute by her overeager college bestie, Alice (Jillian Bell); the two meet up with their former sorority sisters (who are also ex-lovers) Blair, a classy designer business suit in human form played by Zoë Kravitz, and Frankie, a full-time activist and ersatz hippie played by Ilana Glazer.
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House of Cards wants to take on Trump — it even tries to turn Frank into an ersatz iteration of him — but it can never square that idea with the thought that none of Frank's actions or the policy vacuum at the center of his political career ultimately has any real consequence, that everything he says and does is all hollow posturing.
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And that evening, though breathless rumors had abounded earlier in the week that she was going to wear a sari gown specially made by the Indian designer Neeta Lulla, a favorite of Bollywood stars, in fact she wore another Tory Burch creation: a long-sleeved, round-necked gown with stylized gold floral embroidery that again had an ersatz Indian theme.
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SENOIA, Ga. — A drive through the 120 acres of sound stages and Georgia countryside that serve as home base of AMC's "The Walking Dead" encompasses landmarks both grandiose, like the ersatz colonial mansion built for the Hilltop set, and quietly chilling, like the shady grove where the arch-villain Negan bludgeoned two of the show's most beloved characters to death last fall.
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On Tuesday, James O'Keefe's ersatz investigative reporting outfit, Project Veritas, perhaps best known at this point for attempting to undermine and discredit The Washington Post's reporting on the sexual abuse allegations against Roy Moore, posted video of a random Sanders field organizer who speculated about unrest at the Democratic National Convention and defended political imprisonment and reeducation in the Soviet Union.
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This stylish hippy temperament — laden with spirituality, hidden meanings and symbolism — was exhibited in the period's flamboyant clothing fabrics, in rock concert posters, and album music covers; all basically inspired by the exquisitely flowing lines of Egon Schiele, the art of Aubrey Beardsley and Georges de Feure, William Morris's wallpaper designs, William Blake's visionary drawings, and Mucha's whirling shapes expressing ersatz reveries of quixotic females.
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In these moments, the film becomes something much closer to what Didion herself achieved in The Year of Magical Thinking and, to a lesser but still notable degree, in Blue Nights; it penetrates past the ersatz character, the persona Didion wrote herself into across four decades, and reveals the underlying person, the "often random experience," as bewildered as any of us, as often alone.
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While dealing with the fact that there was no cohort to be a part of, I was left to my own devices in addressing a delusional administration, including Dean Muhl, Vice Dean Jones, and Dean of Student Services Penelope Jones, regarding the fact that I was both socially isolated as well as pedagogically misdirected due to a lack of structure and foresight in the nonexistent studio component of this ersatz program.
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Also pursuing that possibilities of digital technology, Jonathan Rosen: Double Life, curated by Laura O'Reilly, Alessandra DeBenedetti, and Regina Harsanyi presented a room full of huge screens that seen with my own eyes looked like a typical Twitter feed, but with an attendant holding up an iPad to filter the contents, became a three-dimensional stream of bots and ersatz identities floating to the "top" of a pell mell visual screed.
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RH is certainly not the only company to make ersatz versions of design classics and many would argue that the practice benefits a consumer who has a taste for something more interesting than he can find at Room & Board but is unable to spend thousands of dollars on a leather and steel lounge chair by Mies van der Rohe, or does not have the time to find something truly vintage.
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But Dr. Moore, a postdoctoral research associate at King's College London, who recently wrote the book "Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric," could easily have bestowed similar praise on any of the night's other participants: straight white and Asian ladies who vogue for sport, gay black male dancers from Brussels for whom fellow voguers have become an ersatz family, and even a middle-aged German woman with a government job.
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I say herky-jerky because it was six or eight or maybe 10 speeches in one, caroming without warning from a plea for unity to a tirade about the border; from some boast about American glory under Trump to some reverie about American glory before Trump (yes, it existed!); from a hurried legislative wish list to a final stretch of ersatz poetry that read like lines from a batch of defective or remaindered Hallmark cards.
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In the Notre Dame speech, this reassurance manifests itself in a restatement of the assumptions that have guided organized religious conservatism since the 1960s: that the chief threat to religious faith comes from secularizing elites; that the great moral debates of our time pit Christian rigorists on the right against moral relativists on the left; that religious conservatives and limited-government conservatives can be natural allies because the welfare state is an ersatz religious institution that crowds out private charity and churches.
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The Quill of the first film, if informed that his long-lost dad was named Ego, would have smirked like a ten-year-old and asked to meet Uncle Id. Media historians to come, gazing at the franchises that kicked off this century, will be struck by the desperation with which most of them—the Avengers , the Guardians, and the road-bound mortals in the " Fast and the Furious " series—ram home the theme of the family, or, at least, of the ersatz clan that is made up of fellow-combatants.
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