Word: pretender
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...that she once believed was part of the CIA. Her father, with whom she has had a lifetime of chilly relations, does the same. She is sent in different guises (many involving loud dye jobs and midriff-baring tops) on international missions on which she has to pretend to do what SD-6 wants while really doing what the CIA wants. She also, and invariably, has to overpower a huge gent who's packing heat...
...that prides itself on catering to real people as well as fashionistas. And while the idea of a firefighter is something to fantasize about, the physical reality may not be. So no job security worries for models yet. But supermodels and celebrities are another question. At least you can pretend that a nameless model really is a firefighter or a welder or a pilot. But put Tom Cruise or Antonio Banderas or Linda Evangelista in a firefighter's uniform, and the fantasy evaporates. Suddenly it's crass, commercial and calculated. But fans needn't worry...
When faced with this difficulty in a statement on its website, PSLM doesn’t pretend to know what the right wage actually is. In the end, PSLM’s only argument for the adequacy of a $12 wage is that it is more than $6.75—and the principled stand for a universal human right becomes a crude demand for more money...
DIED. FOSTER BROOKS, 89, teetotaler whose trademark act--an endearing lush trying to pretend he's sober--was a staple of TV variety shows of the '70s and '80s; in Encino, Calif. A friend asked Brooks to tell a few jokes at a 1969 charity golf tournament. His improvised drunk, which delighted the power crowd, led to appearances on Dean Martin roasts and the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson...
...rifle-first into caves, tiptoeing through the minefields, helping Afghanistan take another shot at freedom and America strike back in the name of thousands of innocent dead. To the men and women opening letters instead of gifts, and draping festive mine tape on a tumbleweed Tannenbaum. I won't pretend to know for sure whether you're lucky to be there or I'm lucky to be home - maybe neither, maybe both. We'd all be luckier, I suppose, if none of this were necessary, if Osama bin Laden had stayed a businessman and nobody ever killed anybody without...