Word: pretended
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...students have a large degree of choice over their adherence to gender stereotypes. Stifling personal tastes and instincts for the sake of fitting one’s gender is not only weak, it smothers social change before society is even able to recognize its problems. Those individuals who pretend such norms don’t and never will affect them are either unimaginably lucky or blind...
...Please note, oh offended people, that I do not offer this criticism as any sort of professional, or even vaguely competent, dancer. I am awful. However, I know that I am awful and never pretend otherwise, which is more than I can say for members of many different clubs on campus...
...that an Ivy League title will be on the line. Forget, for just a second, about last year’s absolutely unbelievable 30-24 triple-overtime win in the 122nd edition of The Game in New Haven, a game in which Harvard trailed 21-10 after there quarters. Pretend, temporarily, that Harvard won’t be trying to win for an unprecedented sixth straight time against Yale, just the latest in a number of firsts in a series that originated played...
...Broadway in 1975. The show takes place over the course of a dance audition for a Broadway show, and it is founded on a neat bit of irony: the dancers on-stage are playing themselves. They actually had to go through a Broadway audition so that they could pretend to be going through a Broadway audition.Take the show out of Broadway, and you take the cool, meta-theatrical knick-knacks out of the show. This loss of irony killed the last quarter of Friday’s production. The extended, on-stage discussion about the state of dance, theater, Broadway...
...There is no single human being who is able to see enough of what is being made to have any idea what is going on. You can pretend to know...but no one really does,” Lowry said. He said that despite the onslaught of art available for the public, art institutions should not feel obligated to interpret...