Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film makers foul themselves up this way? Why mess around paying good money for the rights to Wertmuller's film and then have to pretend that her ironic perceptions about Sicily have anything to do with Los Angeles and the Imperial Valley? Why not just say, "O.K., we'll start with Pryor, and he can be, I dunno, a sex-mad orange picker...
...company if you're the kind of person who walks away from a fight. Most of us hum along with Elton but stay clear of Father's on a Saturday night. So maybe if a townie leans out his car window to inquire, "Move it, ya Hahvahd queah!" you pretend not to notice. But you move it--silently consoling yourself perhaps with the words Kid McCoy used after he woke up from a knockout by Joe Gans: "I'm not a fighter. I'm a lover...
...aware that there is a long march ahead. Says his close friend, Violinist Isaac Stern: "Slava knows that there are certain elements of the classic repertoire that he still has to grow into. He will not pretend that he can match the 30 or 40 years of experience of any master conductor...
...glasses. For the Bild Zeitung caper, he also shaved off his mustache, adopted the name of Hans Esser and passed a pre-employment writing test at the paper. Once hired, he had to turn out credibly trashy articles. He also had to socialize heavily with fellow reporters and pretend to share their views to prevent detection. His account of the experience, Der Aufmacher (The Banner Headline), accuses Bild of fabricating interviews, publishing phony photographs, aiding government intelligence agencies and slandering public figures who do not embrace the paper's editorial policy...
...students still in the closet at Harvard is particularly high. I attended a public university in Ontario for one year and many more of the gay people were out there. This may not be evidence to permit to draw any conclusions about Harvard, but I don't pretend to be scientific; I am being subjective. In any case, the number of students here who will stifle expression of their emotions and sexuality for a few years, or even a lifetime, is a cause for sadness and questioning. We must question in the hope of eventually making this world more accomodating...