Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crack of a whip," he wrote to his friend and patron Chantelou in 1645, "like your Parisian painters who make a sport of turning out a picture in twenty-four hours." But in his Roman youth, he could and did turn them out, and it would be idle to pretend that all early Poussin is on the same level. Some paintings are much less "finished" than others. A few are hackwork (such as Hannibal Crossing the Alps, done for Pozzo, who had a thing about elephants). And one painting from San Francisco's De Young Museum, The Adoration...
Running Backs: The other Garrett, Judd, leads the ground game. Like Hinz, he is deceptively quick. Judd has rushed for 609 yards on 103 carries (a 5.9 average). His backfield partner, Dennis Heidt, doesn't pretend to have the skill of Judd Garrett. So Heidt just blocks, and blocks well...
...critics say it is irresponsible to pretend that Yellowstone and other high-use wilderness areas can thrive on nature alone. "Letting nature take its course here is not based on realistic assumptions," says Alston Chase, author of Playing God in Yellowstone. "What starts as a policy of laissez- faire ends up becoming a policy of massive interference." Chase advocates setting controlled fires to produce the desired mosaic of vegetation, while creating breaks that would prevent natural fires from spreading out of control. "You don't prevent forest fires," says Chase. "You just postpone them by building up fuels. This summer...
...found in either serving one's country or protesting what one believed was its march toward folly. Says Sociologist Jerold Starr, the editor of a widely praised academic curriculum on Viet Nam, "The principled act was to make a choice about your commitment to the war, and not pretend it was just something happening in Washington." Baby-boom politicians should continue to be questioned about Viet Nam, and deserve the consequences if it turns out that their primary response to the anguish of the age was self-absorbed apathy...
...said that I needed to work on my mouth -- I talked way too much. Then, in fourth grade, boys started to find me attractive, so I put away my boxing gloves." At school Michelle acted up; at home she acted out. "I'd sing into the garden hose and pretend I was Elvis," she recalls. "Whenever I'd try to con my mother, she'd say, 'What a drama queen...