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...members of Congress hide their heads in the sand and pretend the Nicaraguan threat will go away, they are courting disaster and history will hold them acountable," he said. "Nothing less than the security of the United States is at stake...
Presumably the oh-so-self-effacing Koch does not pretend to philosophical consistency. In Koch's rhetoric on crime it is difficult to find any inner moral conviction to support his demand for vengeance...
...neurotic he's got sweat coming out of his ears. And the acting by the supporting cast also is fine, especially by John Rabinowitz '85 as a guest who points out the Sartrean dilemma of being and nothingness by throwing himself down on all fours "to pretend to be a hyena"--a cameo that culminates in Rabinowitz taking a chunk out of the leg of a fellow guest. Kudos to Fitch for giving Rabinowitz several chances throughout the play to reveal his amazing repertoire of vocal sound effects...
...success is skill as an actor: he must pretend to be what he is not. In a federal court in Baltimore last week, John Walker Jr., 48, whose espionage work for the Soviet Union had gone undetected for nearly 20 years, took on his most difficult role: that of compassionate father. "Mr. Walker was more concerned for his son's future than his own," Defense Attorney Fred Bennett told U.S. District Judge Alexander Harvey II. "I want to do everything I can to help my son Michael," the confessed spymaster and former Navy warrant officer told his lawyer...
...MORTALS OFTEN BECOME what they pretend to be, and pretty soon Traven's hero role acquires a more comfortable fit. When Antonio's friends demand that he play the piano, an instrument he hasn't mastered, Robert plays like a Carnegie Hall veteran. And when Antonio's son gets in trouble with the mob, it's Robert who has to take on the underworld single-handed. Pretty soon even his cold, business-like secretary is getting all gushy about Robert...