Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drama (and therefore, lack of audience involvement). Instead of stories of gangsters' lives, the films continued in the vein of the slice-of-life drama. They became superficial chronicles illustrating episodes in a criminal's career, with little explanation of why or how he got there. The films pretend to be socially relevant, but are little more than fashion shows. We know little about Bonnie and Clyde as persons but much about their wardrobe and the kinds of cars they stole...
...somebody around here had some downers, some goofers, I could get down, but as long as I'm flyin' let's party. Let's boogie! Wake up, everybody! You are just crouching there with your sleeping bags over your heads hoping I'll shut up so you can pretend you're trying to go to sleep, but that's just bogus. Hey Mark, you and me are standing here and nobody's saying anything anymore. Either we've won 'em over or they're maybe fifty people gonna jump us any second...
...pilot's eyes have changed; the world he sailed, all childish bravura, has grown more dark. Shall we pretend that his darkened seas are a harmless phantasy?...Alas, my friend, he's turned the Argo's prow to the void. We'll watch and wait, follow him into the darkness and through...
...sent him to the basement to hit ball after ball into a canvas backdrop. After two years, Johnny began to take lessons from another determined man, John Geertsen, the pro at the San Francisco Country Club. At the end of each lesson, the pro would play "let's pretend." "Johnny," he would say, "you have just one shot left to win the U.S. Open and this is it." Johnny would bear down and hit a good shot almost every time...
DESPITE BULLITT'S noble expectations, the grad student thesis reader does feel this pressure, although it is unlikely that any grades were changed because of direct pressure from the other readers. Still, Graduate students say it is unfair to expect them to pretend that senior Faculty members do not affect how they read a thesis...