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...another story runs. Only they're not real stories. At best, UPI's famous network of international correspondents has been replaced by stringers and freelancers who are able to pick up some of the slack. But that's about it. The stories average about two sentences. Unable to pretend to be a full-fledged wire service, the agency is moving to provide what might be called news fragments. A more apt name might be in order: blurb, maybe. Or blip. UPI now supplies headlines to a San Francisco paging company which displays headlines on pager screens and to a Kentucky...
Perhaps O'Connor's best suggestion was to "pretend your sweet little grandmother is always next to you." Although this did stop me from cursing, it also meant eating dinner at 4 p.m. and telling myself I needed a haircut. Again, I preferred cursing...
Some students try to pretend Harvard is just like every other college by calling the entryways "vertical hallways." This is deceptive logic, though, since climbing stairs to the fifth floor of Matthews is significantly tougher than gliding effortlessly down a normal dorm hall...
...will begin making choices about academics and extracurriculars--what sounds interesting? What would I like to try? Others have told you about academics and extracurriculars, in fact, Harvard will pretend like these are the only two areas of your life with which you should concern yourself. My advice to you is to seek another dimension of life at Harvard: other people. Unlike the course guide and the extracurricular fair, after orientation week you will never be presented with a chance to meet people and choose friends. I guess I thought there would be another chance, and so hung out only...
...process that screenwriter Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and director Roger Michell (Persuasion) allow to develop confidently, digressively. William, for example, finds himself obliged to pretend he's a journalist for a fox-hunting magazine interviewing all those connected with Anna's latest release, a horseless sci-fi epic, at a press junket. On another occasion, he's mistaken for the room-service waiter and patronized by her movie-star boyfriend (a funny, uncredited Alec Baldwin, trying hard for noblesse oblige and delightfully missing the note...