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...stop acting, but my acting burden will probably increase. Everyone I deal with will be scrutinizing me for symptoms--loving friends and relatives most of all--just as I scrutinize friends and relatives who are chronically ill. Up to now my audience has been either nonsuspecting or constrained to pretend it didn't suspect. In the future everyone will all know the script I'm trying not to follow. My performance, to be convincing, will have to be better than normal. If you're normal, or people think you are, you can clear your throat or trip...
Stanley Greenspan, author of Building Healthy Minds, says a child's imagination develops in babyhood and is enhanced as kids grow, especially if adults pretend with them and challenge them to become "scriptwriters" in their own dramas, with lots of scenarios, subplots and intrigue. In short, we help them make their own movies. "In later childhood, books leave more room than movies for conjuring," Greenspan says, "but movies can bring literature alive and stir the imagination." Greenspan and others say the most important aspect of movie watching is the conversation after the final credits roll, when kids can be encouraged...
Being able to hear these famous individuals speak may not be the highlight of most Harvard students’ lives. But people should at least make some effort, as a sign of respect to their distinguished guests, to pretend that they are. Absolutely no one, let alone international dignitaries, should have to eat around smelly people who are rushing from place to place...
...Thinks to self] “I’m going to pretend to fall asleep so my head can fall into her breasts...Gahhhhhh...
Having graduated only eighteen months ago, in June 2000, I cannot pretend to have worked on FM in a totally different era. I talk to my fellow editors often, and our conversations are dominated by jokes about our time at FM. Lately, we’ve been talking of creating a spinoff of FM. Several spinoffs, actually. FM: New York will feature reviews of cool bars and hot nightspots. FM: DC will have informed, but sardonic and clever, articles on politics and life “inside the beltway.” FM: Duluth is still in the early stages...