Word: pretender
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...something of a goal. I had a sense that there was something inherently judgmental in shock at the spectrum of humanity. I’d decided that interest was a more appropriate stance—one that didn’t moralize and didn’t pretend to a categorical normality...
...Anderson: What is arrogance? Arrogance is if you pretend to know the truth and say someone else's truth isn't truth and it turns out you're not right. That's arrogance. But if you share your truth and say the other person is not true, and it turns out that you are right, then it isn't arrogance...
...with MAWs—“Models, Actresses, Whatever”—ostentatiously reading scripts and waiting to get discovered. Of course, there are plenty of entertainment executives out there who are very willing to discover these starlets. (And even more men who are happy to pretend they wield the necessary power.) Still, I’m consoled by the fact that a bona fide MAW works at my local branch. A while back she had told me of her desire to act, so I asked if she’d heard that Katharine Hepburn had died...
...elevators are full and feigning physical discomfort can acceptably replace fickle chatting. Such tactics become remarkably more difficult when the numbers decline, and the scene begins to resemble a bad blind date. You nod, you smile, you twirl your hair to seem otherwise occupied. And more importantly, you pretend you have somewhere incredibly important to go—and once the door opens, you make fast tracks to get there...
...least we don’t pretend to be writing our Crimson pieces over the summer from “New Jersey/New York City” when we’re actually just writing from New Jersey. Oh wait…never mind...