It's not clear how long "Lone Star" can keep Bob's phony lives aloft, and that suspense is the allure of a drama that straddles the oil rigs of Midland and the skyscrapers of Houston.
Faced with what the philosopher Ernst Bloch once called the "swindle of fulfillment" in rampant consumerism, Mr. Talen nullifies it temporarily with his own counterswindle -- all the more effective for being obviously phony and live.
The upstate you'll discover in this book is the kind of place where movie stars relocate to escape their phony Hollywood lives, then flee again when they can't stand the anonymity.
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.
"We are now living in a fake reality of constructed data and phony polls," he wrote.
— "that's Brooklyn backwards," he noted — is one of two living links to the original Sym-Phony.
"She has not accepted that this choice was the wrong one," assistant US attorney Mary B Murrane told the court, "Nor does she acknowledge the public has a right to know who else assisted" in helping the couple live under phony names in a Santa Monica apartment.
And if you can't, can you live with being a poseur, a phony, a sellout?" Grunge's sound partly results from Seattle's isolation from other music scenes.
Because we live in an age of weak excuses and phony explanations and very few people stepping forward to take responsibility for anything.
She was paid about $3.3 million by Madoff, and she and her husband, who live in Ozone Park in Queens, withdrew nearly $500,000 in proceeds from phony investment accounts, according to the civil lawsuit.
