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...skills he learned in a woodworking class at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. He praises the teaching skills of the instructors there, noting that “since there is a real possibility of getting your hands cleaved off by a machine, you just don’t pretend [to know what you’re doing].” He brags that, though he forgot to put the bed back in his room at the end of the year because he left school early to attend the Truman Scholars Leadership Week, he was not fined...
...most famous fashion photographers of the twentieth century, shows us what glamour really is. The Look presents us with a charming and uncomplicated view of history that glosses over the tumultuous events of the past century with a veneer of elegance and style. This exhibit does not even pretend to be political, and once you get over the fact that you are being presented with the frothy side of history, you will be in sheer heaven...
True, Thirteen Ghosts doesn’t pretend to be anything more than a low-budget horror flick released in time for Halloween, but it doesn’t even fare very well at that. Perhaps owing to the film’s (at times intentionally) laughable dialogue and generally unoriginal direction, genuine frights are few and far between. The visual effects and set design do have their moments, but the ghosts themselves too often look like tired haunted house props. And while the story holds the audience’s attention well enough, its supposed surprise twist is rather...
Argument cuts into comfort and bruises our pride, but it's also the way we get smarter, and humbler. This is a time that calls for as much humility as courage: when the territory is unknown it's better not to pretend you know where you are going. Better to listen to advice, argue with passion, even with ourselves and our worst instincts. Our better angels need weapons too, and argument makes them sharper, and every time we fight the urge to panic and help someone else regain his balance, we may better arm ourselves for whatever these next days...
...line of weed. "It's not about nationalism or anything," he insists, "but no one should want to be a fake Japanese person." The group rarely uses English in their songs and resent accusations that they're just copying American hip-hop fashions. "We are not trying to pretend to be black people," says Yan, who sports a scraggly goatee and a tattoo of an Alaskan killer whale totem on his shoulder...