Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five months the investigators had failed to get a transaction on tape. Finally, in early March, Chandler convinced Watson that only he would be trusted enough to make the undercover drug buys. Watson would pretend to be a neophyte dealer eager to make a few extra bucks by selling to friends. Often the sales took place in the middle of the night. Watson kept working his regular 8-hr, patrol shift as well as his 4-hr.-a-day outside job as a security guard...
...defense will undoubtedly use a number of Hinckley's rambling verses to buttress its portrayal of the would-be killer as a tortured psychotic who cannot be held accountable for his actions. "[Pretend] you are Satan's long-lost illegitimate son/ a solitary weed among the carnations," Hinckley wrote in one poem, "a child without a home/ the loser of a one-man race." Another verse notes: "I have become what I wanted to be all along, a psychopathic poet...
Knoxville's energy fair does not pretend to be in the same big league with the so-called universal expositions, which are classified by the Bureau of International Expositions, established in Paris in 1928. Smaller fairs, such as Knoxville's or the proposed 1984 fair in New Orleans, are categorized as "specialized" expositions and are devoted to one major theme. Exhibitors usually share large halls...
Clearly, this affair-put together by the museum's deputy director, Diane Waldman-does not pretend to be a full survey of Italian art now. Yet she has tried to suggest the eclecticism of the Italian scene by focusing on its manierismo. Most of the artists are obsessed, one way or another, with pastiche, allegory, narcissistic display, irony and side quotation. They are also inclined to a somewhat dandified and bogus kind of religiosity, which...
...four young actresses who alternate roles as students and teachers in a Yonkers, N.Y., parochial school back in the '60s. All the tribal rites reprised here have been done before, and better, and too often-at alumnae gabfests, if not onstage-for Playwright Casey Kurtti to pretend to freshness. Alas, freshness-make that impudence-is all School Girls has going for it. The play's antireligious broadsides are clumsy enough to make the viewer resolve to take a nun to lunch...