Word: pretender
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...drop Luis Buńuel flicks. In the Spitzer case, reporters eventually tracked down his regular date, "Kristen," an aspiring singer with a MySpace page. The drab details we glimpsed--would-be American Idol ends up with a bit part in Fallen Idol--contrasted ironically with the club's play-pretend trappings of emperors and diamonds (the basis for its pricing scale...
...would have been interesting to see what Call Girl would have made of a character like this. As it is, it's just a tale of one woman, which doesn't pretend to tell us anything universal about the world's oldest profession. Except, perhaps, what TV shows like Top Chef have been telling us for a while now: that the customer-service business is hard work...
...upon reaching her lowest point, Rowling said, she stripped away the “inessential” in her life and ceased to pretend to be anything other than what...
...Time to Stop? I have grown disappointed over the past few years as TIME seems to have developed an unending devotion to lists of people [TIME 100, May 12]. I imagine you all sitting around a table at a bar, throwing out names and drinking beer as you pretend these lists provide anything that resembles decent content. What happened to the masterful magazine of record and real depth? As a longtime subscriber, I wish you would go back to substantive reporting and drop the vacuous list-making. Susan Heron, Tampa...
...Time to Stop? I have grown disappointed over the past few years as TIME seems to have developed a persisting devotion to lists of people [TIME 100, May 12]. I imagine you all sitting around a table at a bar, throwing out names and drinking beer as you pretend these lists provide anything that resembles decent content. What happened to the masterful magazine of record and real depth? As a longtime subscriber, I wish you would go back to substantive reporting and drop the vacuous list-making. Susan Heron, Tampa, Florida...