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...vehicles--but I don't fit in a regular car. Finally I said, 'Maybe you want me to pierce my ears and nose, paint my cheeks, use lipstick and makeup? Look, the people who vote for me see me every day as I am. I don't have to pretend to make them like...
...reading off Washington's script in the conduct of international affairs, least of all when it comes to Cuba. Which makes Castro's presence in New York that much more difficult for the U.S. to manage. In fact, more than anything it's Washington's efforts to simply pretend he isn't here that gives Castro carte blanche to grab the front page...
...seemed to me pretty hilarious that a guy would think the way to pick up girls in a New York bar is to pretend to be Lance Morrow...
...pressed, you mumble Harvard as if you've just mentioned time in your local prison. Once you arrive on campus, it becomes clear that the sweatshirt you bought as a starry-eyed prefrosh will no longer be good for much other than visits home. Basically, we all try to pretend we don't really go to Harvard, in some sort of bizarre modesty or insecurity about what that means about us. Maybe we just don't want to associate ourselves with all the Harvard stereotypes--it's not important, the point is that we all avoid the "H-bomb...
...smoking cigarettes in the dining room of the Nonantum Hotel in Kennebunkport when he was 12. He'd round up the younger brothers and say, "O.K., you little wieners, line up," and he'd shoot them in the back with his air gun, and they would all flail and pretend to collapse on the floor, and it hurt, but they'd all get up and do it again, because he was the oldest and the most fun and so outrageous. They'd go to church, and he wouldn't say, "Good morning, Mrs. Witherspoon"; he'd say, "Hiya, little lady...