Your best bet is simulacrum, and simulacrum can break down very, very quickly.
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Why not make it a simulacrum of a future business?
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Not a simulacrum of relationship, but a form of actual relationship.
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Swift, in those instances, was once more a kind of simulacrum.
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Twitter, as Jonathan Chait recently suggested, is a kind of simulacrum.
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Soon, I started noticing this fantasy simulacrum of old New York everywhere.
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Could she be 'real' and a simulacrum at the exact same time?
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Ehrenreich's Han, through no real fault of his own, is a simulacrum.
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Domestic opposition is harassed and crushed; elections are a simulacrum of democracy.
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First, you have to build a simulacrum of how Earth's climate works.
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Or are there other players benefiting from having a William simulacrum running around?
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Once we embrace the personalized simulacrum, we start letting AI speak for us.
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The Miku Expo isn't a concert—it's a robo-show, a concert simulacrum.
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No sitcom simulacrum can dull the impact of that kind of artistic sincerity.
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The video game world is left, once again, with the simulacrum of touch.
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I can't create a simulacrum of something living and I don't want to.
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Up three steps is a simulacrum of an apartment, though spartan and small.
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At root the anxiety is: Who is the human here, and who the simulacrum?
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Universal really created something special in terms of its simulacrum... It's close to Westworld.
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Chatty drivers can turn every ride into an awkward simulacrum of a first date.
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And his big single is like a simulacrum of a mainstream hip-hop hit.
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He wants the spark of the real to be the basis of the simulacrum.
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Visual art is his most useful simulacrum for finding correspondences between the two worlds.
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In the absence of human interaction we cling to whatever dark simulacrum is available.
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Like Keys, it was a simulacrum, though this time of a fancy Italian restaurant.
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A simulacrum is a poor substitute or imitation, a counterfeit image of the real.
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It's a simulacrum of an experience designed to make this family think it's badass.
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At what point does a digital simulacrum become as good as the real thing?
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Could you just, like, give me a few moments to ponder the simulacrum or something?
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But this title race had never really been a drama, merely the simulacrum of one.
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You will see a tacky, cheerful simulacrum of a classically creepy English manor drawing room.
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Given enough time, the simulacrum will overcome the reality, negating the need for originals at all.
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They're like any other convenience food: a wan simulacrum, fine in a pinch but never transcendent.
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A bit farther south, Hanoi House also aims to transport diners to a simulacrum of Vietnam.
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What if you synthesized all that into one idea, one simulacrum of the possible real thing?
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It's a mistake to give undue value to what's "real" over what's a simulacrum of reality.
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It has lifelike features, but the Link simulacrum has dead eyes and a horrible un-smile.
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Replicas, reproductions, simulacrum, and copies have a reputation as being nothing more than inauthentic knock-offs.
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Still, even a simulacrum of understanding has been a good enough goal for natural language processing.
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Is she the savviest, hardest-working celebrity ever or a shallow simulacrum of talent and fame?
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When actual VR took root in our minds as an all-encompassing simulacrum is a little fuzzier.
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She's the daughter of von Rothbart, whose magic has made her into a perfect simulacrum of Odette.
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On the contrary, it turns them into a simulacrum—not a real person, exactly, but a persona.
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She's become a sort of simulacrum of broader issues: white womanhood, empowerment in a sexist industry, allyship.
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The sets are a creepy simulacrum of the surrounding village, alchemizing local history and lore into horror.
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Then, you try to perturb this simulacrum with plausible future human actions, to see what picture appears.
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In the Temple of Aphrodite he beseeches the goddess to make his "simulacrum of a girl" come alive.
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Every team that has adopted that style since has gone through some sort of search for a simulacrum.
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For Tiler Peck, in "Sonatine," the minor fluctuations happened on the fine line between delicacy and its simulacrum.
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In so many ways, the story of Keith Raniere is a fitting simulacrum for our post-truth world.
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It's simultaneously a perfect simulacrum of The Room and a jarring introduction to that hilariously uncomfortable set environment.
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It was a strange simulacrum, where the false scenario that we as producers had created actually became real.
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The ketwurst is both a simulacrum of East German identity and a simulation of an existing Western dish.
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The mark, like the book, is about seeing; the squirrel simulacrum catches my peripheral vision as I write.
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The technology is supposed to provide remote workers a simulacrum of those in-office, face-to-face connections.
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In particular, it tosses Noelle into a buddy-cop simulacrum with a private eye who takes her case.
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Those jobs seem almost mythical today, so the best Jordan's character gets is a nonsensical, performative simulacrum of one.
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Audiences have gotten familiar with this kind of cautionary yarn, where technology offers a lonely simulacrum of human contact.
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Arthur: The key is that offering up new ideas doesn't require becoming a spittle-flecked simulacrum of her challenger.
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On set, the stars deliberately cultivated an idealized simulacrum of the broader industry — female-led, open, nonhierarchical, mutually supportive.
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It's a simulacrum of comfort of my own making, and I indulge in it as much as I can.
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It's a weird, internet-enabled simulacrum of fascism that I think is much more reflective of our decadent age.
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The key to understanding the new Turk's is that it's not a simulacrum of the original, trapped in amber.
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The process creates a kind of inverse simulacrum, in which an object representation manifests from its lower-dimensional reference.
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She traces it back to the concept of eidolon, a simulacrum of a real-life entity that is seen in a version of the Trojan myth, where the woman that Paris abducted from Sparta was not the real-life Helen, but a simulacrum, while the real Helen had been spirited away to Egypt.
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With dripping, creaking, flowing, artist Katie Wood and scientist Grant Macdonald build an uncanny aural simulacrum of a melting continent.
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As complicated as building a simulacrum of the human body is, building one of the human mind is even worse.
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Inside a low-ceilinged ballroom, Steyer delivers what feels like a simulacrum of a campaign speech to a receptive crowd.
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Check out works by Quasimimicry and Pussykrew, for other artists working on the boundary of the real and the simulacrum.
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I've never done this before so Penny started off not as a simulacrum, but certain aspects of Penny are me.
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Again, a pixelated landscape — but one can't help but feel as if Gursky is throwing the viewer into a simulacrum.
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Although Doug came off as the chief simulacrum manager for a brand with cultish aspects, I had sympathy for him.
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We know the asylum in which they've been stowed is a simulacrum of the one David escaped in the pilot.
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His voice, a plangent, plummy thing, is like an artificial-intelligence simulacrum of how the upper classes spoke in Edwardian England.
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Another room, merely vast, is hung with unfinished paintings in what seemed a tentative simulacrum of a museum or gallery show.
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And now he's rapping alongside the elegantly quirky Valee, delivering high-quality simulacrum with a young-boy twist: Get a bag!
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It took a few more years, but eventually Ted understood that he didn't want to live with a simulacrum of intimacy.
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Now it's a heap of rubble, and even if it's reconstructed, the results will only be a simulacrum of the original.
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"A fake Venice next to the real one, whereby the truth of the simulacrum shatters and engulfs the truth of history"?
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It's meant to be a simulacrum of real competition, where the only loser is the person who actually takes it seriously.
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Yahoo Games, the once-hopping online game hub best known for its simulacrum of classic board and card games, is shutting down.
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It was also a "virtual estate," for fans who longed to access some simulacrum to Prince's mysterious Paisley Park home and studio.
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An artificial neural network is a machine-built simulacrum of the functions carried out by the brain and the central nervous system.
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But soon we entered a disorienting simulacrum of the past: a labyrinth of imperial gardens, stone bridges, and pagodas with crimson eaves.
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We habitually inscribe books with our names, to make them ours, a faint simulacrum of the 18th-century bookplate and private library.
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The stage show uses balletic movements to recall those of felines and over-the-top costumes to achieve suggestion rather than simulacrum.
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The Teleprompter Trump we saw on display Monday night offers a kind of simulacrum of what we've come to expect from a president.
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The simulacrum Everett handed me seemed maybe a little clunkier, a little less graceful, than the actual Far Niente I had in Denver.
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What you end up with is good if unedited copy, a simulacrum of what you used to get with a regular paper typewriter.
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Acts II and III take place within a simulacrum of the Nuremberg courtroom, but it is never clear who is on trial: Wagner?
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It feels like a crazily long time, escalating tension and turning this scene into a stylized uncanny, a simulacrum of a freeze frame.
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I think some of that has to do with what a simulacrum is: a simulation of the original that nearly replaces the original.
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"For those who believe tattoos are mere representations of representations, well, here's another layer of representation for you—a hyperreal, lifeless simulacrum of tattoo."
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We live in the simulacrum, far from the everyday world that Goodman inhabited, and none of us quite know what to make of it.
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The chips' magnificently artificial flavoring is not a simulacrum of nature but an improvement on it, as fantastical and engineered as an unmanned satellite.
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However, many of these women, when outside of the ring, presented themselves as respectable, or at least, as a simulacrum of Victorian American propriety.
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Putin staged a simulacrum of democracy, handed himself another term in office, and faced little in the way of opposition throughout the whole process.
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Poniewozik evades this line of thought by asserting that Trump is TV, the mere simulacrum of a human being projected onto a flat-screen.
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Fifth Harmony performed a simulacrum of ruthless precision in an impressive show-opening set, and Daya shout-sang her sneakily effective club-pop hits.
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It asks if Stewart can make the home of someone like Kaczynski a lovely thing — or at least create a simulacrum of suburban order.
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Instead of looking through real sights down a range, the soldier squints through a replica and sees a virtual simulacrum of, say, an enemy tank.
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You have to be able to take a simulacrum of a beating that turns very quickly into every bit the real beating, night after night.
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Likewise, in "Le Cirque Medrano" (18503), exuberant performing figures are put through Léger's mechanical meat grinder and expelled into the hyperreal dominion of entertainment simulacrum.
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Life in My Pocket is a simulacrum of Diamond Stingily's childhood: chain-link fences, a weathered basketball hoop, and looped telephone cords — perfect for jumping rope.
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But many airports are threatening to be a kind of camera obscura, a simulacrum of a city that, if we're on a layover, we'll never see.
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Barred from joining the WASP establishment, they banded together to forge a simulacrum, a place where self-proclaimed "Jewish big shots" could unwind in semiassimilated fashion.
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The simulacrum of authenticity is a nostalgic stutter, according to author Katie Kitamura in her essay "Recreating Chaos," providing access to the inaccessible and controlling something chaotic.
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Putting together such a package does not in itself create a Silicon Valley simulacrum: history, culture and a lot of established venture capitalists are not easily replicated.
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They marveled at how even old-line manufacturing cities now offer a convincing simulacrum of coastal life, complete with artisanal soap stores and farm-to-table restaurants.
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The group has been dropping a scattering of digital singles recently; the latest is "Root," a pattering plea for earnest communion in a time of digital simulacrum.
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Viewers would be seated before a simulacrum of her computer, viewing the world as she does, through chat screens, Skype-like calls, live streams of cable news.
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Accumulating know-how and equipment (including an anti-tank cannon), the four men live in a simulacrum of domesticity that seethes with ambient violence and erotic tension.
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A memory is not a simulacrum of an event — it's a version of it that's colored by emotion, and it can present itself to us anywhere, anytime.
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One of these is "gas pedal pumping" — fans of pumping enjoy watching their partners press on the gas pedal of a car in a simulacrum of sexual intercourse.
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The future implications of technology is a frequent topic of his, and stories such as "Simulacrum" and "Staying Behind," specifically look at simulating uploading human minds into computers.
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Behind a brown-stained plywood wall, a simulacrum of an eighteenth-century drawing room, McTeer was being strapped into a corset that fit over her light-blue gown.
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The politicians are immediately making passionate pleas, invoking funds, tax cuts and the completion of the Mose, which might work but may end up saving only a simulacrum.
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While both government and opposition negotiators haggle over the terms of the peace agreement, Gambela airport has been turned into a surreal simulacrum of a rebel bush encampment.
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That way, the electronic simulacrum can keep an eye on its physical counterpart, flagging up potential problems and predicting better than an arbitrary maintenance schedule when parts need replacing.
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If you instruct its Siri-style virtual assistant to "talk like a Legend," it will speak in a simulacrum of the smooth sound of Grammy-winning crooner John Legend.
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Yet if I closed my eyes and forgot about the tube, my first taste was of apple pie—or a reasonable simulacrum, with bits of crust and real fruit.
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The first African fighter to gain true fame and a simulacrum of prestige was Tom Molineaux, a late 18th century prizefighter born a slave in New York in 1784.
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Even now, 25 years after the book was published and about 40 years after it was set, we still subscribe to The Virgin Suicides' simulacrum of teenhood as quintessential.
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Often on this album, she sings with a stern, terse vibrato that codes seriousness from a distance but feels more like a simulacrum of feeling than the real thing.
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But I wish The Walking Dead would stop making him a simulacrum of a big bad villain and actually showcase other qualities of the character that deserve our fear.
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But how wonderfully American it would be to have the real Mount Hood, not 250 miles to the north, but right behind the billboard — a triumph of the simulacrum.
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It's almost as if Stars Hollow exacts a fairy changeling exchange from these women through their babies — except what gets exchanged are real ambitions for a simulacrum of fulfillment.
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By the third play, "Widows and Children First," he lives in a simulacrum of a straight sitcom: He is a single father raising a son while managing an ex.
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To achieve his simulacrum of a slow-cooked, wine-infused stew, Mr. López-Alt adds a slurry of Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, anchovies and powdered gelatin to the cooking liquid.
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GRiZ produces a kind of electronic funk simulacrum that's popular enough that he's playing this show after flying in from another one in Asheville, N.C. At Webster Hall, Manhattan; websterhall.com.
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But what they will get will be a pale imitation, a simulacrum, designed by executives in boardrooms, decided by power brokers in private, staged for the benefit of the television cameras.
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Its perfectly humanistic androids have deeply human hearts, in contrast to actual humans, who've been cruising in space for so long that they've fallen into a lethargic simulacrum of real life.
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So if he has success as this sort of almost-simulacrum of a crazy political leader, I suppose that could become — and I hate this phrase — the "new normal" or whatever.
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It's a nearly four-minute-long virtual-reality experience that re-articulates Pariser Platz with violent and erotic encounters, meant to provoke a sense of simulacrum, a complete distanciation from reality itself.
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The works collected here by curator Camille Morineau are based in much less severe forms of sham and simulacrum than those mentioned above — they mimic sublime natural phenomena on a small scale.
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It's a far cry from, say, Stranger Things, in which nearly everything the characters interact with or talk about remains famous today, as if they inhabit a simulacrum sourced from internet listicles.
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Wallace Stevens called his collected poems "The Planet on the Table"; Merwin's work is more like a terrarium on the table, its elements balanced and tended in an eerie simulacrum of reality.
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Now he's doing an awards-season press tour under the eye of his "Oscar whisperer" publicist, Ana Spanikopita (Angela Bassett), taking credit for the work of an improved electronic simulacrum of himself.
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The "outrage industrial complex" is what I call the industries that accumulate wealth and power by providing this simulacrum of community that people crave — but cannot seem to find in real life.
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Yet these games can also provide a way of confronting reality or, at the very least, an artificially rendered simulacrum of it that is heightened, shaped and structured by an authorial presence.
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That's the point: Thinking about Mister Rogers will make you cry, and watching even a simulacrum (which is all that Hanks, gifted as he is, can come up with) will move you.
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Couture began Monday morning in Paris with Schiaparelli, its founder an erstwhile friend of Dalí, Cocteau and Co., and famous for wearing a simulacrum of the above-mentioned crustacean on her head.
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It's the perfect story to set on the edges of Orlando, where the budget hotels offer a thinly mocked-up version of Disney World, which is itself a simulacrum of the American dream.
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A cynic would say that the Frenchman is no more than a faded simulacrum of his English-speaking forebears, and that would be true if the only evidence were a sheaf of stills.
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We joke that the mall, with its cheerful storefronts and town square built around a Ferris wheel, feels like the Matrix, or "The Good Place" from TV — an artfully rendered simulacrum of happiness.
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I think Jacoby would enjoy Galchen's beautiful and strange novel about a psychiatrist named Dr. Leo Liebenstein who becomes convinced that his wife has been replaced with a simulacrum that only he can detect.
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That, though, was the high-water mark for human cloning, for people began to discover that raising a mini-me was not the joyful experience of creating a flawless self-simulacrum that they had hoped.
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The temptation is to just give each image a perfect sky, but then what's the point of taking a photo if I'm going to turn it into some idealized simulacrum through Google's infinitely powerful tools?
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Kelley is setting us up to think about melodrama, which "dem" is not made of but is very much about: the substitution of feelings for ethics, cheap thrills for costly experience, and simulacrum for reality.
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It all comes with the weight of everything that happened before, a simulacrum of real life's disappointments and triumphs, playing out in front of you in a motion that is similar to your own life.
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Seeing how the filmmakers — including the novel's author, Ernest Cline, who co-wrote the screenplay with Zak Penn — conceived of this dystopian future and the simulacrum of a life into which everyone escapes was engaging.
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They're also both gigantic fuckups: Teddy is the eternal frat boy while Brody is a Ryan Lochte simulacrum, an Olympic golden boy who sullied his reputation by losing one for his team in spectacular fashion.
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But even then the appeal is pure mood: in this high-end universe, everything feels at once corrupt, delectable, and melancholy, with that quality of "world-weariness" which serves as an aesthetic simulacrum of sophistication.
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Instead all this song-plus-dialogue stop-and-go functions as an aural simulacrum of a two-parents-three-kids family that recalls neither my childhood in that precise situation nor my own parenting history.
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Judging from the clip, Bernard himself will enter the Cradle's world, which opens up the possibility that one of the Bernard storylines audiences have been following this season could have been a simulacrum the entire time.
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While Bullock and Blanchett get the meat of the script to work with, surprisingly it's Hathaway who slinks off with the entire movie — in part because she gets to play a glamorous, soulless simulacrum of herself.
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The Opening Ceremony are two days away, and after seeing the thousands upon thousands of RIO 2016 vehicles, swag-clad volunteers at every corner, and TV sets throughout the city, the Games feel like a simulacrum.
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The same production opened at Shakespeare's Globe, the open-air simulacrum of an Elizabethan theater across the Thames, for which Mr. Rylance served as the first artistic director (and frequent leading man) from 1995 to 2005.
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Tossing a coin while delivering a Tom Stoppard-esque meditation on chance and causality, this woman makes it clear that what we will be observing is not intended as a simulacrum of reality past or present.
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On its surface, much of "Even a Tree Can Shed Tears" can seem like an uncanny simulacrum of vintage Californian folk-rock, an alternate universe in which Buffalo Springfield and the Grateful Dead sprouted in Tokyo.
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For people who've been following red carpets since the Joan Rivers days, watching stars answer questions about their fashion choices at the Golden Globes pre-show last night felt like a bizarro simulacrum, for better or worse.
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But the company's departing, bulky, stage-filling simulacrum of ancient Egypt deserves an elegy for showing up, season after season, and finding the balance on which 19th-century grand opera relies: between awesome spectacle and intimate drama.
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Fake people with fake cookies and fake social-media accounts, fake-moving their fake cursors, fake-clicking on fake websites — the fraudsters had essentially created a simulacrum of the internet, where the only real things were the ads.
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The discovery was nothing short of bizarre, as it brought a team of art restorers to the realization that they'd be working on a dead man rather than a simulacrum of one, but Palmeirão took it in stride.
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Their surrealistic juxtaposition of parts, which evoke Comte de Lautréamont's "chance encounter of an umbrella and a sewing-machine on a dissection-table," declares a corresponding dislocation in what they're modeled on: the body reduced to a simulacrum.
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Each of the video's six sections, which the narrator states are "specifically designed to give you the tools that you need for success when it comes to labor organizing," take place in an animated simulacrum of a Fulfillment Center.
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Each of the video's six sections, which the narrator states are "specifically designed to give you the tools that you need for success when it comes to labor organizing," take place in an animated simulacrum of a Fulfillment Center.
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It's not excusing Isis' vandalism to point out that what they destroyed was less than a century old; or that the weird, cartoonish recreation in London, in its attempt to realistically copy a simulacrum, was doomed from the start.
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From a penguin who fell in love with a cardboard cutout of an anime characters to people who "ship" real-life figures, creator Shannon Strucci delves into how the simulacrum of connection is increasingly substituted for the real thing.
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It did not become a place people liked to go to so much as it was engineered to be one, a hyperreal version of itself offering a consumable simulacrum of local culture interwoven with placeless, high-end luxury activities.
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For young men like Bracke, who have either not completed a four-year college degree or have not found work equal to their education and skills, video games can become something like a surrogate occupation — a simulacrum of success.
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Especially if they can get an acceptable simulacrum at a fast-fashion brand down the street, like Zara or H&M, which was able to spot the garment via pictures and measure its success via the number of "likes" it achieved.
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Instead it's a competent Scorsese simulacrum whose success exposes both the frustrated desire for movies that are more politically and morally adult … and the tragedy of a movie system that can only simulate grown-up art inside the comic-book machine.
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Esparza and Cortez —along with Rubén Rodriguez, Brenzy Solorzano, Fabián Guerrero, Sebastián Hernández, María Maea, and Gabriela Ruiz, six queer artists invited by Esparza — have created a simulacrum of a lush future, where multiple races, sexualities, classes, and desires can coexist.
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But small talk is small talk, and at least in my experience, it doesn't get any less awkward when the person on the other end of the conversation isn't really a person at all, but a simulacrum of a person.
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Part of the burgers' success as a beef simulacrum may lie in how it is sold: You'll find it in the refrigerator case near the ground beef, rather than the freezer along with the cardboardy veggie burgers we're all used to.
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So, if you want to play—but not pay—like a pro, you use a proxy card: A homemade simulacrum of a costly, unowned card that, with two players willing to shake on it, stands in for the real thing.
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By incorporating a mark used to deter counterfeiting, Kaiser refuses to submit to the commonplace view that silkscreen and copying (or counterfeiting) are bonded together, that we live in a simulacrum populated solely by copies and counterfeits, that everything is dead.
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Above all, it succeeds because she has been able to engage Aaron Green in a simulacrum of the psychoanalytic encounter — he confessing to her, she (I suspect) to him, the two of them joined in an intricate minuet of revelation.
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A ceiling-height simulacrum of the titular banyan, the tree's "roots" are composed of twisted, flowing rolls of newspaper, knotted and swaying from the ceiling and stretching into the first floor's main hallway — a decision she attributes to the museum's preparator.
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A set of bath salts, maybe, or a bar Of lemon soap the simulacrum of a lemon, and we tried to remember If such a thing came wrapped in tissue paper like the fruit itself, or was it See-through cellophane?
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Karl Ove Knausgaard made his international reputation with "My Struggle," a series of books in which the details of a life — his life — are so closely described that the language on the page produces a fair simulacrum of real life.
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With its fake Paris and fake New York, much of the Las Vegas Strip is a gaudy simulacrum of the rest of the world, and Twitter's city, like much of CES, was another deeper layer of fakery nested within the larger town.
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The new kit, which is designed for kids 10 and up, lets you build a 9-inch tall by 5-inch wide BB-8 that, despite the blocky nature of most Lego pieces, is a more than reasonable simulacrum of the robot.
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We yearn for a connection that is almost impossible through the technology as it currently exists and the unadulterated failure of that medium to offer even a simulacrum of true, human interactivity is what is killing our discourse, our culture, and our minds.
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There is accountability and then there is accountability, and there is the journalism that looks to hold institutions and individuals accountable and there is the bassed-up simulacrum of it that clomps around in daddy's shoes and makes a lot of noise.
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When focusing on the art, he talks a good deal about artists investigating commodification, simulacrum, and mass media (of less relevancy to today's digital world, where those things have become one) but almost always covered art shows at the high-roller galleries.
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The Frank Ocean album not coming out has given Frank Ocean so much publicity that to release an album would be to kill a simulacrum who has slowly taken over aspects of Ocean's life like if a clone in The Prestige got loose.
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His wide-eyed confusion and panic takes place in a studio simulacrum of broad daylight, leaving him no shadows to escape to; the boyish new wardrobe that's replaced his trademark black hoodie would leave him little chance of blending in any case.
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After being led into a dark antechamber and asked to remove shoes and socks (I pitied the woman wearing long laceup boots), we don raincoats and then move into another room, in the middle of which is a simulacrum of a cemetery.
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The exhibition opens, in fact, in a tree-covered simulacrum of Colombia's Chocó forest, with a display of golden poison frogs, tiny and probably freaked out — in the forest, the poison dart frogs are lethal, but born in captivity, not so much.
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Directed by Lucy Bailey and designed by William Dudley, this revival of Christie's 1953 drama (which she adapted from an early short story) transforms the Council Chamber into a simulacrum of a courtroom in the Old Bailey during the post-World War II era.
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But this ninth film "might just brush the bad-faith squabbling away," writes Owen Gleiberman at Variety: Fans fell hard for "The Force Awakens," until they woke up and realized that they'd been seduced by a kind of painstakingly well-traced "Star Wars" simulacrum.
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But her previously compelling mix of that all-too-grounded childhood trauma and otherworldly mystery is crushed down in The Girl in the Spider's Web, reducing it to some conventional badassery of the sort that feels cooked up by someone trying to build a simulacrum of feminism.
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Mr. Weiss and his collaborators aren't alone in mining this intersection, which has been explored by everyone from John McLaughlin and his Mahavishnu Orchestra in the 1970s to John Zorn — via projects like Naked City, Painkiller and Simulacrum — from the late '80s up to the present.
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We are meant to take this as a simulacrum of Swan's actual salon, in the Carnegie Hall studios, where on Sunday evenings from 1939 to 1969 — by which point Swan was 86 — he performed barely clothed dance recitals that also incorporated song and poetry, paintings and sculpture.
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Though the play — a Ma-Yi Theater production that opened on Wednesday at the Public Theater — lands somewhat uncomfortably in the gap between simulacrum and satire, it includes scenes that are moving, exciting and profoundly eye-opening for audiences just beginning to see disabled actors onstage.
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It is a celebrity-generated piece of political content, with which Sanders surely hopes to reach Cardi's immense and youthful social-media audience, but it is also a simulacrum of a traditional broadcast interview, in which Cardi dutifully asks questions gathered from her followers on Instagram.
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It felt silly to be in there, escaping from my escapism, and yet it turned out that I was a sucker for this simulacrum of upper-class island life: I longed to stay forever in fake-real Nantucket with Tabitha and Harper and Eleanor and Ainsley.
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I found Joker to be like listening to someone scream-read Catcher in the Rye from a different room or, as Alissa pointed out in her review, a piece of art that resembles nothing more than an amalgamated simulacrum of Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy.
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If it was more the performance of transparency than the actual fact; a simulacrum of intimacy — Mr. Michele issued a "personal invitation" to the show via a voice mail message on WhatsApp, though every attendee got exactly the same one — it was also something to see.
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In "Possession" (212), the only film by Mr. Zulawski to be released commercially in the United States, Isabelle Adjani played a woman who, as her marriage disintegrates, indulges in a mad affair with a squidlike creature that evolves into a simulacrum of her husband, played by Sam Neill.
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UTTER 160 or so French or English phrases into a phone app developed by CandyVoice, a new Parisian company, and the app's software will reassemble tiny slices of those sounds to enunciate, in a plausible simulacrum of your own dulcet tones, whatever typed words it is subsequently fed.
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For example: Instead of having a body I would like a t-shirt of a body A big, sensual t-shirt Luscious jersey knit And very quiet ("It Takes A Real Man to Be a Little Girl") Here, the body has become an indefinite abstraction, a simulacrum of life.
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The project is Self's first foray into installation, and Sour Patch is a kind of cartoonish simulacrum of a store: colored linoleum tile floors, safety mirrors along the ceiling, shelving wallpaper festooned with images of giant, colorless Sour Patch Straws, Vicks Vitamin C drops, and Udupi chips (plantain chips).
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Her exhibition at ICA Miami, Life in My Pocket, is a simulacrum of childhood, and of Stingily's girlhood specifically: "Fences" (2018), two entryway chain-link fences, imply an opening but also a border; the looped telephone cords of "Double Dutchess" (2018) are perfect materials, Stingily said, for jumping rope.
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And yet, even though I'd come across similar setups in the waters of Hawaii, Southern California and the beach near my home on the Rockaway Peninsula, I was skeptical that this simulacrum could replicate the intoxicating swoosh that had encouraged my addiction to surfing in the first place.
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The goal clearly wasn't to find the truth, or even the nearest approximation to it, but to construct a simulacrum of that truth: to gather testimony from a selective group of witnesses, stitch it together with the FBI's institutional credibility, and mask its obvious flaws with incredible secrecy.
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The proud music and nightlife culture of New York City has changed the world and still brings visitors from all over to stare vacantly at the simulacrum known as Joey Ramone Place, which sits across from fashion boutiques, upscale eateries, and bank outposts, and wonder where it all went.
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I didn't really feel like doing work, but I felt some distant compulsion to sit at my computer in a kind of work-simulacrum, so that at least at the end of the day I would feel gross and tired in the manner of someone who had worked.
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On a fenced-in back deck, a charming simulacrum of a back yard, friends in their twenties communed at picnic tables and ordered white ciders and green salads, dreaming of futures in which they, too, might one day have private patios in gentrifying neighborhoods, with healthy flower beds and climbing vines.
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As ex-president, he will be perfectly positioned to return to his natural habitat, the simulacrum of "reality TV." It's not hard to imagine Trump TV as a ceaseless and influential presence in the cable landscape, tugging Fox News and the rest of the media even further to the right.
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If this trope sounds familiar, it's because Kudya took inspiration directly from an episode of the British TV show, Black Mirror, in which a widow communicates with a simulacrum of her recently deceased husband, taught to speak like him through uploads of all of his digital interactions (both public and private).
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There was a photograph of the stage for Miley Cyrus's "Bangerz" tour (Cyrus sliding down a simulacrum of her own tongue) and, hanging from a hat stand, dozens of backstage passes—Kanye West's "Touch the Sky" tour, Lady Gaga's "Monster Ball," the Pet Shop Boys' "Electric" world tour, and so on.
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The movie's most memorable moment — when his girlfriend appears on one of those many monitors in an attempt to talk sense into him — ends up feeling like a simulacrum of how working-class people might talk to each other, garnered from a steady diet of Honeymooners reruns and Born Loser comic strips.
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The old staging had grown dull and dowdy — and besides, "Rosenkavalier" is not just a simulacrum of 18th-century Vienna but is also about what the new version, set on the cusp of World War I, made more vivid: the change of generations, the war of the classes, the end of a world.
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One-part museum, one-part ghostly amusement park, one-part outsider art exposition, and about 27 parts Whaaaaat the fuuuuuuuuck this is so uncomfortable and awesome, it's a dilapidated simulacrum of a one-horse frontier outpost with the requisite saloon, wagon repair shop, post office and, why not, an opera house and Chinese laundry, too.
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Vegan pizza has long been relegated to dine-in options at the first wave of hippie-ish, more health-focused vegan restaurants—where it's hardly resembled pizza at all—or more recently has appeared in the frozen food aisle topped with a plasticky simulacrum of mock cheeses that best emulate low-end supermarket mozzarella.
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Whether it's stories about the difficulty of making his NBA 2100K video game simulacrum match his real-world performance, or just the simple, ongoing absurdity of a player who routinely makes long-distance shots that few other players would even dare to take, contextualizing and cataloging Curry's greatness has become a virtual cottage industry.
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There is the puzzle of whether to join a yearly propaganda show in which foreign journalists are given plum seats at leaders' press conferences and urged to pre-submit questions that few will be invited to ask—allowing state media to show domestic audiences the world's press, hands aloft and clamouring to join this simulacrum of representative democracy.
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That the iPhone X won't have any kind of physical button on its face—not even the cheesy simulacrum of one, such as the 26 has, and the 8 will have—is an affront to not just your humanity, but humanity at large, and honestly, probably the first of a thousand death by pinpricks in the forthcoming robot/human wars. Probably.
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Even as an enormous admirer of the decadent Joris-Karl Huysmans novel À Rebours (21950) (translated as Against Nature) — in which the dandy Jean Des Esseintes (an eccentric, reclusive aesthete antihero who loathes bourgeois society) tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of simulacrum — I am no longer in uncritical agreement with the premise of this show: that the artificial fictitiousness is a priori poetic and thus beneficial.
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Beyond alluding to local context in an obliquely codified manner, and even taking into account the sophistication of his design, wouldn't it be nice to see Ingels engage with a wide range of NYC residents in public dialogues about 2 WTC, instead of merely paying lip service to ideas of neighborhood and community by producing a ginormous hypermodernist corporate simulacrum that seems to usher in the end of any traditional conditions of human-scale density, neighborhood and community?
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