Word: feignedly
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...bloody acts. But it is not his isolated moments of passion that I want to praise; rather it is the intelligence with which his role is conceived. The tension of the production is created by Caligula's slowly developing insanity. This production convinces us that Caligula's decision to feign madness is rationally made, and that the insanity becomes real as he finds only a flimsy and cowardly opposition to his craving after power. Gullette's final frenzied soliloquy after strangling Caesonia, in which he decides that absolute power brings absolute loneliness, that he has been wrong, is as moving...
...Queen Ingrid appeared with Danish-born Pianist-Funnyman Victor Borge beside a statue of Denmark's greatest teller of fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen. Borge, wearing half-spectacles "for very short stories.'' read two Andersen tales to some 100 bemused tots. The children could not quite feign indifference to a real King and Queen, and at one point a local lad asked chainsmoking Frederik pointblank: "King, where is your crown? I thought all Kings wore crowns." Affable Frederik explained that a crown is a special-occasion headpiece: "I only wear it when I'm in Denmark...
...Khrushchev continued to pour on the agony, the phoniness of Moscow's noisy piety became all too obvious. Canadian Opposition Leader Lester Pearson declared: "It is the sheerest hypocrisy to feign passionate anger and indignation" at "a crime common to all governments and inevitable in present circumstances." Adenauer observed: "Everyone knows that aircraft have been flying at high altitudes over several countries for years . . . I have knowledge that the Russians are flying over our territory as well." In Britain, former Ambassador to Russia Sir William Hayter reminded his countrymen of the embarrassing disappearance of British Frogman Lionel Crabb (TIME...
Rocky's feats dazzle no one more than Rocky. After hitting a home run, he roams the Indians' bench, bellowing with glee, hunting down teammates, who feign terror as they try to preserve their hands from his numbing clasp of self-congratulation. Every locker room in the league has echoed to his rallying cry: "Don't knock the Rock...
...sensitive that they could write on it with their fingers (TIME, Jan. 19). The doctors got him to play basketball. Within 15 minutes the patient had hives and a swollen left eye. He was released from the Army. But allergy to effort is so uncommon that goldbrickers trying to feign it will...