Word: feign
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...Broadway opening in 1960, striving for the same wistful tone and minimal set that straddle the boundary between the homemade and the “fantastical.” The show, which was produced by Rory M. Sullivan ’09, tells the story of two neighbors who feign a feud, putting up a wall between their houses, so that their children will fall in love and they can merge their households. By the end of the first act, everything has gone according to plan. But as the childhood lovers grow up in the second act, they break...
...nation for a quarter-century was brought to justice. Saddam Hussein's trial and execution were imperfect. But the critics of the trial can't have it both ways. First, many of them told us that we couldn't expect Iraq to be a Jeffersonian democracy. Now they feign outrage that Saddam's trial didn't live up to Jeffersonian standards. Of course the trial was imperfect--but compared to what? The summary judgments accorded by their countrymen to Mussolini in 1945 and Ceausescu in 1989? The four-year-long, never completed farce of a trial of Slobodan Milosevic...
...where he could find the best advice. “And whoever had the best stuff,” he said. He showed off a t-shirt from Steve and Barry’s University Sportsware. “I didn’t have to stop, talk, or feign interest. They just handed...
...between an essay question and a True/False question. In face-to-face contact, far more than words are used to communicate. Tone is established, and para-verbal cues register mood. It's a lot harder to tell a convincing lie in person, and it's a lot harder to feign confidence. Rather than learn to manage these moments, we've punted it over to a realm where none of that matters...
...Comedy Central spin-off “Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector” and the Mo’Nique star vehicle “Phat Girlz”—have learned an expensive lesson: never judge a movie by its trailer. Predictably, the studios feign innocence. In an interview with Associated Press film writer David Germain, Dennis Rice—Disney’s publicity chief—argues that studios are looking out for their audiences’ best interests: “If we don’t think [press screenings will] help open...