The protagonist of "Adult Contemporary" buys a "2BR/2BA lifestyle... a managed experiential product"; when he tries to escape it, he runs into workmen constructing the facade of the town where he grew up, "even more like the town he remembers: an imagined place more real than the place it is supposed to be".
Amid popular outcry, a monorail was constructed along the facades of inner-city buildings to serve Darling Harbour as it converted from shipping docks to entertainment facilities and a casino.
Of the fact that celebrity can be a false flag, a carefully constructed facade hiding the darkest of motivations, there can be no doubt.
It wasn't until the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards that the carefully constructed facade known as Basic Britney began to collapse.
The renovations to the Brooklyn House of Detention include installing sprinklers, building a fire exit, reconstructing the facade, and constructing a place to accommodate visitors to the jail.
The orangeish brick structure, which has some nice prewar detail on the facade, was constructed in 1931 as a Y.M.C.A. for merchant seamen.
From the early 1990s larger cities were inundated with temp jobs where people were trained in HTML and Photoshop as the business of web design started with the hiring freelancers who mostly constructed visual facades for companies where purchases were an afterthought.
Pearson prepares us for shocks to come as he reflects on "the price of shoring up, providing a few more bricks to the facade we Afro-Americans construct to maintain our dignity rather than tell the world or even ourselves everything about who we are".
3. Raga: Seeking Validation: Because this newly constructed facade of a self is made up of constituents of the manifest world, it is highly unstable and ultimately unreliable.
This is called malicia, or the art of deceit, which refers to the ability to preempt an opponent, to see through a constructed facade.
We are witnessing a carefully constructed facade, one made to get views and make money.
