Word: pretended
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...meantime, however, power through the end of classes, pretend to work on final papers, and enjoy the winterscape into which the New England climate converts the Yard...
...Biden Isn't Being Coy About Running for President While other candidates pretend to be weighing their options, the Delaware Senator views 2008 as his last shot - and he doesn't care who knows...
...their enormously hyped end-of-summer albums, Christina Aguilera, Paris Hilton, Beyoncé Knowles and Jessica Simpson all at least pretend to provide their listeners with the universality of great pop. But each singer--or, in Hilton's case, the person whose voice rises and falls rhythmically on the album--is known as much for her multiplatform celebrity as for her songs. All four women feel the need to tend to constituencies that may have wandered over from TV, the multiplex or the gossip-mag rack, and inevitably they usher their notoriety into their music. For those of us who like...
...drastic constitutional amendment that would have done the same thing--very much like what her husband did in 1995 when he produced a balanced budget, horrifying the left with 25% cuts in domestic spending. That helped take the political momentum out of a balanced-budget constitutional amendment. "Do you pretend [an issue] doesn't exist, or do you find a way to beat it?" asks former Clinton White House domestic-policy director Bruce Reed. "The Clintons have always found a way to beat...
...always fighting the last war. And people who book commercials on cable channels don't pay a lot of attention. Those two universal truths meant that, as of Thursday, stations were still running the Sierra Mist ad in which Kathy Griffin and Jim Gaffigan play airport security agents who pretend that their handheld metal detectors are being set off by Michael Ian Black's soda bottle - so they can confiscate it and drink it themselves. "You're just going 'wah, wah' when you put the thing over the soda!" Black protests, as the guard played by Gaffigan adjusts his rubber...