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...disc jockey who answered Drickamer's victory call was apparently dissatisfied with her reaction to victory, so he asked her to pretend he had just picked up the phone and then scream a lot, while he taped the ersatz yell...
...medical attention goes to the chronic, hopeless ills of the aged at the expense of children and young adults, whose needs would be a much wiser investment of the resources . . . In the real world, limited resources impose choices; in the world of government, everyone can play Let's Pretend...
...bowed, as they hurl phrases like "Down with the obstinate prisoner" or "Confess or face the consequences." Sometimes forbidden words, "liar," "scum" or "son of a bitch" slip in--and the gang's abuse is too relentless for comedy. Even a strong-willed victim's only out is to pretend to confess sincerely, and the realization that he must acquiesce to struggling eventually makes him as complacent as one who could never resist...
...Occasionally I pretend I'm from Dartmouth and turn into an animal--but that's only when I'm racing," Eric Jewett said yesterday after his two first-place finishes last week led Harvard to its first triumph in a ski meet in almost ten years...
...show is not, and could not pretend to be, a history or compendium of drawing. As a collector, Thaw admits his bigotries, and one of them is antipathy to Italian baroque. But in his favorite areas, particularly the 19th century, an exquisitely sure taste has been at work. One would have to go some distance before finding drawings as good as Cézanne's big study of a card player, in which the pencil strokes endow every plane of flesh and fold of cloth with the crystalline solidity of gray limestone; or Daumier's brace of lawyers...