Salinger is imagined to have given voice to what every adolescent, or, at least, every sensitive, intelligent, middle-class adolescent, thinks but is too inhibited to say, which is that success is a sham, and that successful people are mostly phonies.
The movie version overflows with affection and good intention, but unwittingly turns a bauble of cheerful fakery into something that mostly feels phony.
The film's contrast between the warmth of bohemia and the sterile stultification of bourgeois life is sentimental and a little phony, expressed mostly by consumer and lifestyle choices.
According to court documents, Rizzo claimed more than $770,000 in phony losses, mostly on his horse ranch outside Seattle, which he falsely said was rental property.
Rizzo was accused of claiming more than $770,000 in phony losses, mostly tied to his sprawling horse ranch in Washington state, which he wrongly claimed was rental property.
Robert Rizzo, the former city manager of Bell who already has pleaded no contest to 69 corruption felonies, pleaded guilty Monday to federal tax charges in which he claimed more than $770,000 in phony losses, mostly on his horse ranch.
Phony brickwork will mostly consist of concrete and a fake thin film that's completely worthless and will flake off in a matter of 15 years or slightly longer.
The truth is that I prefer the YouTube version by the little girl and her dad, mostly because they come off as cute and playful, rather than phony and indie-Jesus-esque, longing to be worshiped.
Rush Limbaugh has made a living off of this phony hegemony, as well as Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and whole host of mostly broadcasting personalities.
But these mills were mostly entrepreneurs out for a buck, and the C.I.A. learned to filter their phony, but benign product.
