Word: pretender
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...into a studio and just stay there until the album was done. I could be completely selfish and immerse myself," she says. "[Being a mother] made me stronger as a person. To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend...
...guests. When he wasn't being funny, he could be resolutely serious; "The Tonight Show" occasionally devoted entire evenings to one guest (Carl Sandburg) or discussion of one topic (civil rights). Unlike most modern hosts, Allen wasn't shy about trying to edify people. He didn't pretend to be stupider than he was. Or younger. On his prime-time show, he presented kids' stuff with a cushion of irony. He'd dead-pan the lyrics to "All Shook Up" as if it were a Shakespearean sonnet. When Elvis Presley appeared at the apex of his first notoriety, Allen...
...only kind of public treatment of this issue since the outbreak of violence over a month ago has been a series of highly partisan rallies/vigils sponsored by Harvard Students for Israel (HSI) and the Society of Arab Students (SAS). While these groups might pretend that they encourage open dialogue, their behavior suggests they want anything but. Rather than solicit other opinions they have polarized the issues. By holding separate vigils to mourn the dead and organizing competing rallies to assert their own opinions, these two groups have drawn a bold line between their two sides. Debate consists of yelling back...
...will not make any more false promises to myself--I won't pretend that I am still the fan I was in the early 1990's, during the honeymoon of my fan-ship...
...film does not pretend to be a judge, nor a neutral viewer. Gimme Shelter's true brilliance lies in its depth and ambiguity. The Angels are not necessarily the villains intruding on the peace-n-love vibes of the hippies. The entire dark side of '60s is on display: chaos and mindless anarchy have rushed into the void cleared by the vague promise of freedom. The audiences seen here are the dark doppelgangers of Woodstock. Every face looks programmed and every movement emotionless, like a Stepford Wives vision of the hippiedom. Along with the Charles Manson bloodbath four months earlier...