They and the Italians are enduring an ersatz recovery, derivative of more authentic revivals elsewhere.
Keating learned about the scam only when he saw one of his ersatz Bennetts in the gallery windows.
FORBES: Masterpieces For Everyone? The Case Of The Socialist Art Forger Tom Keating [Book Excerpt]
British limits on urban sprawl have led to the creation of ersatz villages.
Unfortunately, Italy and Germany also seem to be suffering from ersatz political leadership.
Electronic Arts booted the hackers off the game and erased the ersatz gold.
The soundtrack is full of ersatz British pop, so tuneless and squally that it could almost be the real thing.
Last week, Mr. Rafsanjani refused to attend a much-publicized "reconciliation event" concocted by Ali Ardeshir Larijani, the speaker of Iran's ersatz parliament.
Quite a lot of ersatz Holmes betrays itself in the field of idiom, but Mr. Horowitz turns out to be notably sure-footed.
The team went to some lengths to dimensionalize those portraits, creating rich and nuanced lives and backstories for the ersatz people they had concocted.
FORBES: Big Data Insights Will Never Substitute For Imagining Little Souls
Today, the ersatz Eiffel Towers and Chrysler Buildings symbolize China's power to control the world by transplanting Europe and the U.S. into its domain.
Following their ability to shut down ersatz Chinese Apple Stores, which Apple neither owned nor authorized, people are declaring: Two Victories for Apple!
Until Germany's ersatz recovery, based on exports, becomes a genuine one, based on domestic spending, there will be few jobs to push the unemployed into.
Perhaps the most extraordinary example is Mountain's Edge, a half-built suburb near Las Vegas, where an ersatz archaeological dig has been incorporated into a park.
ECONOMIST: How to reconcile archaeology with suburban growth
Nor is all ersatz Austen concerned with affairs of the heart.
Because the Land of Oz exists outside our reality, even the most ersatz effects -- butterfly trees and flowers that toll like bells -- are fair game.
CNN: Review: 'Oz the Great and Powerful' is more than good enough
It's an ersatz epic about men in fights grim fights, grinding battles, clanking combats that are repetitive and, in a movie that runs 140 minutes, all but endless.
Something got lost in the transition after 1913, as the Fed started to pile on ersatz first principles of monetary policy, such as the laugh lines above.
FORBES: The First Principles Of Monetary Policy: Forward With Herman Cain
Vermont's ersatz socialist also forgets the history of the 1970s.
Notting Hill's estate agents now trade on an ersatz trendiness.
This Columbus Day, the Italian-American groups that traditionally lay a wreath at the base of the monument can lean it against a purple sofa in Mr. Nishi's ersatz living room.
WSJ: Discovering Columbus | A Monumental Problem | By James Panero
There, men photograph their children in front of ersatz Mayan fountains and what looks like a Baroque church (actually a market where you can buy shoes, basketball shirts and pet rabbits).
Was it true, the only socially acceptable reason to wear a top hat is if you're a Central Park buggy driver, an ersatz hippie at Burning Man or Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in "Dumb and Dumber"?
Too vindictive for comfort, Will Arnett and Amy Poehler are the creepy brother-and-sister ice-dancing champs, Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg, ersatz heavies in matching pink tulle (props to costume designer Julie Weiss, who clearly had herself a ball).
On either side of the road, up the green slope and down on the lake side, turnouts and driveways for lovely inns, kooky ersatz Austrian mini-villages, hip coffee houses and eccentric galleries appear invitingly like pictures in a pop-up book.
Crucially, this is not ersatz presence.
FORBES: Parenting Lessons From Japanese Teens On The Value Of Text Messages
Most prominent was the British paleontologist, biologist, and comparative anatomist Richard Owen, who coined the term dinosauria (Greek for "great lizards"), and in 1853 opened a Dinosaur Court in London's Crystal Palace, holding a banquet in the belly of an ersatz iguanodon.
During an hourlong interview in Korn's colonial-style bungalow in central Bangkok (his workplace and an ersatz meeting hall for the opposition), he was at pains to explain how he wants to promote investment in Thailand yet take Thaksin, and even Temasek, to task over the Shin sale.
应用推荐