put-on

But the crowd at the RNC still loved Vance, despite hearing he may eat tofu because they know all this peace-and-love talk is just a put-on for the cameras.

“People trust me because I’m not a put-on.”

Put-on or not, it’s full of hooks.

To Finch’s credit, this wasn’t a complete political put-on.

But he writes with sensitivity too, from painterly depictions of the Palm Desert and Salton Sea to riffs on the Talmud that suggest Cohen’s faith isn’t entirely a put-on.