Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jackpots--the crucifix, the flying green vomit--behind curtain number three, and it had to be seen to be believed. Everything else was just garbage--the eleven bad songs to fill out the hit single album. Jaws was more refreshing than. The Exorcist partly because it didn't pretend that the filler was anything else but a vehicle for the real stuff...
...better days, looks like a church turned bingo hall. The Ernest Tubb Record Store is only a dingy Woolworth's--lines of cheap cowboy boots and tumbled boxes of western shirts, old George Wallace Speaks records, trick glasses that look like they're full of beer but when you pretend to spill it on someone the beer stays in because there's a false...
...stage, to simulate conventional sounds on a host of percussion instruments, but there are also special stagehands, called Kurogo, who render all manner of assistance to the actors in full view of the audience. These Kurogo are dressed and veiled in black, to indicate that we are to pretend they are invisible...
...almost the same breath, Ford presumed to grant on behalf of all Americans in the U.S. "recognition of Spain's significance as a friend and partner." Ford's alliance with Franco's fascist government only speaks for the blindness of his foreign policy to the democratic ideals they pretend to uphold...
...Wilbur K. Jordan was not and still has not been given the credit for interest in careers for women that he deserves. "He used to tell use how good we were, how we owed it to ourselves and society to do something. We chose to ignore him and then pretend nobody ever said...