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...pleasure and his business to walk onto the stage of a magazine page, to tell the familiar stories and improvise new ones. So the graceful hands sculpt air to illustrate a point. The smile invites. Even the famous world-weary shrug amounts to conspiratorial flirtation. "You pretend it's true," the gesture says, "and I'll pretend it isn't." It is a marvelous performance. Who else could play Marcello Mastroianni so convincingly...
...year-old specialist in inventory control, who is still trembling from a run-in with her boss, C.E. Ogre. In a role-playing session with her classmates, she relives the scene: Ogre looms over Karen's desk, throws down her latest report and thunders that while she may pretend she's turned around the El Paso situation, she is not fooling him. Karen's jaw drops, her head woggles in disbelief, and her voice quavers, "Are you calling me a liar...
Judge Bork and his proponents in the Reagan Administration now pretend to look to history, only to destroy its promise. Although the Bill of Rights has in general performed admirably, the fact that it is neither entirely broad and general (like the preamble) nor entirely specific and detailed, subjects it to misuse by those such as Bork. Our only recourse now, almost 200 years after the Bill of Right's ratification, is to deny those who would misuse it the chance to sit on Dike's throne...
...with similar victories, Robertson's local organizers were able to attract Iowans who had not been politically involved. A year ago, a crude instruction sheet called the "Christian Political Action List" advised new activists to "hide your strengths" and "pretend to be interested" in general party business. Much of the missionary work was done in evangelical churches, particularly those with Pentecostal practices.* Typical was Debi Nuhn, a teacher who had come 250 miles with her husband Tom and other members of the Word of Life Christian Church. Like Robertson, she said, members of her charismatic congregation were "born-again...
...grants mining rights to production companies and nominally regulates the industry, the vast majority of emeralds are brought to market by independent, unregulated guaqueros. "There are no economic laws that apply," says Jack Rotiewicz, general manager of one of the government-authorized mining companies, "and no one can even pretend to control the market...