Sentences with phrase «ersatz versions»

From the multi-spindle mixers hawked by Ray Kroc during his salad days, to the seductive lipstick imprint on the rim of a glass containing an ersatz version of the creamy treat, to a... Read More»

He would just buy or create the ersatz version of it.

Yellow Fiero (1994), a Pontiac Fiero, was integral to the artist's 1994 Swedish Erotica and Fiero Parts installation and specifically chosen for its cultural resonances as an ersatz version of a luxury sports car.

Nicole Eisenman's «Mr. Peanut and Companion» — an odd portrayal of the beloved Planters mascot — and Tanya Batura's eerie acrylic and clay sculpture «Untitled,» open viewers» minds to witness the ersatz version of our world.

Not exact matches

Distance apart, cyberspace is a humanizing device for creating a kind of ersatz office / pub / common room / public square area for those deprived, rather cruelly, of one or more versions of the real thing.

The cookie and its logo can be found in many corners of our lives — from the hood of a Dale Earnhardt Jr. race car to ersatz educational toys made from oversize, plastic versions of the treat.

The three form a gently deranged ersatz clan, turning «Wilson,» for a while, into a flaky version of that Sundance staple, the dysfunctional - family comedy, complete with glib scenes that mock the «normalcy» of the girl's adoptive parents (Cheryl Hines and Bruce Bohne).

I thought that by the time there was a sequel to Kick - Ass, the distasteful 2010 ersatz British version of an American superhero movie, I'd be sitting in my slippers before the glowing embers of a wintry fire reading PG Wodehouse.

The result is one part Colonial Williamsburg, where authentic and ersatz mingle; one part Lehman Wing, where an excellent New York collector's expensive period taste is enshrined in a Metropolitan Museum of Art replica of his apartment; and one part Disneyland's Main Street U.S.A., where a spiffed - up version of what time has torn asunder offers commercial entertainment.