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...totally feel like we're stuck in this `let's pretend we can be apolitical' moment of Harvard history," Tan wrote in an e-mail message...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, | Title: PREVIEW '99 | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

Ikpe explained the event's name by reading the Paul Lawrence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask," saying black men often feel they must put on a "facade" and pretend to not care about societal misperceptions of black...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Black Women's Group Honors Black Men | 2/5/1999 | See Source »

...audience jumped, bounced, danced, waved their hands and responded as best they could in a language most of them barely knew. Your writers might know that if they got out to some live shows a bit more often. Instead, they like to deconstruct the commercial-radio big boys and pretend they have discovered the key to race relations in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radio Is Not Black and White | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...were kids. This acerbic farce-melodrama, laureled at Cannes and by critics' groups, is directed in a fake-verite style that distracts a bit from the entertaining spectacle of the rich airing their bloody silk underwear in public. But it's still creepy fun to watch the upper class pretend a family isn't in tatters. When propriety meets outrage in a chateau, guess which one wins? Cognac, anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Celebration | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...collection of police badges with him everywhere, a putative peace officer who loved to disturb the peace. He was afraid of the dark, so he slept in the day, explaining, "I know in the daytime when I go to sleep that it's dark in my room, and I pretend like it's night, but I know it's daytime, and I'm not afraid to fall asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fall of The King | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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