(Capturing a photo of Elvis Presley in his coffin was, by Mr. Calder's lights, one of the publication's greatest achievements. The fake priest with the camera in his Bible couldn't get the shot, but the Enquirer, with its famous largess, paid one of Elvis's cousins to help).
This reminds us of yet another time Trump faked something in order to brag about himself — when he pretended to be his own publicist on phone calls with outlets like People Magazine, where, posing as "John Baron," he spun heroic, albeit fake stories about his professional achievements and dating prowess.
The microsociety concept was born in Brooklyn in 1967, when George Richmond, a rookie teacher frustrated by his pupils' lack of motivation, started paying them in fake money for attendance and achievement, then created a fantasy world where they could earn and spend.
In fact, both specialized in what is now called "fake news," boasting of Soviet economic achievements while the population coped with shortages of common consumer goods, and depicting the United States and European democracies as failing societies.
But the news media have seized on the issue, pressing the case that politicians who did get fake degrees or otherwise misrepresented their educational achievements while the requirement was in force could be tried for fraud or forgery.
And the P.A./P.L.O.'s achievements have been largely formalistic if not fake — a more advanced status as "observer state" at the U.N., but with no tangible improvement to the situation on the ground.
To bring out the comedy and the tragedy of Blanche, the fake grandeur and the genuine pain, is a great achievement.
The cynicism of the purveyors of these fantasies is that they know very well what they are playing at, the prejudices they are fanning: that Obama is foreign, a fake, incapable of writing a book, incapable of intellectual achievement.
If a person realizes that they have checked into a fake venue, then they would have lost the time, points, and possible mayorship achievement.
But it is a few minutes of perfect footage captured by one of the cameras hidden inside the fake rocks made by Industrial Light and Magic that are the film's greatest achievement.
