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...block apart, but the awkwardness of trying to express acknowledgment from this distance is too great. Both participants instantly stare back at the sidewalk in unconscious humiliation, feigning ignorance of the other's presence until the distance is closed to approximately 10 feet. At ten feet they can pretend to have just happened to look...
Peretz owes his readers an explanation as to why a Machiavellian politician who lives and runs in a non-Jewish district might pretend he was Jewish when he was not. To say that his Machiavellian calculus is "unfathomable" is either to acknowledge that it was not Machiavellian at all, or that the underlying facts are simply wrong...
...work, an elaborate installation for which Gehry designed a 23-ft.-high freestanding copper structure, a fish-shaped enclosure, complete with lead "scales," for the exhibition of his fish-shaped Formica- chip lamps and a cardboard space for the exhibition of his cardboard furniture. "I'm trying to pretend it's not a big deal," Gehry said just before the opening in Minneapolis. "But it's a big deal...
...nurse practitioners do not pretend to be doctors. They generally restrict themselves to performing routine tests, treating minor ailments and suggesting over-the-counter medications. Even so, they can spare patients many costly trips to the doctor, and they often make house calls. These nurses are especially helpful to the elderly and people with chronic diseases, who may need close watching but not always by a physician...
Soviet officials were reluctant to seek much outside assistance while still trying to pretend that not much had happened. Tuesday morning at 8:10, a scientific liaison officer from the Soviet embassy in Bonn appeared, unannounced and without an appointment, at the office of the Atomforum, a nongovernment agency that represents West Germany's nuclear power industry. He asked Atomforum's Peter Haug if the Germans knew anyone who could advise his country on how to put out a graphite fire. A similar request went out the same day to the Swedish nuclear authority. The U.S. Government stepped forward...