Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Retton, Peter Vidmar and Tim Daggett had a dream. As gymnastics teammates at UCLA, they always concluded their workouts with a fantasy. "We'd pretend it was the Olympics," Vidmar recalls. "We'd turn off the radio, and the gym would be all silent. We'd go to the high bar, and then we'd say, 'O.K., we have to hit both of our routines perfect in order to win the Olympic gold medal.' We always laughed, because it seemed so unrealistic. And all of a sudden, we found ourselves in that exact...
...major problem lies in the construction of The Fourth Man. The movie follows a fairly straight narrative line from its beginning and the end, and the audience is wise to what is going on from the beginning, even if the characters pretend they're not. The end does not pull the carpet from underneath the watcher the way a Hitchcock conclusion would; rather, it adds the missing piece to a puzzle-picture we're already more than well familiar with...
...meet just to show up. In Europe, appearance fees are openly paid. In the U.S., the money passes under the table, and officials of the various sports federations that rule on who is and who is not an amateur pretend that the practice does not exist...
Farrakhan's outrageous statements have been roundly denounced by liberal leaders. "We cannot pretend we do not see or hear when Louis Farrakhan predicts race war by 1986," said Senator Edward Kennedy in an eloquent speech a fortnight ago on the dangerous rifts that have come between Jews and blacks. "Such conduct can never be condoned and it must be unequivocally condemned." Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin called on Jackson to repudiate Farrakhan. George McGovern last week asked how Jackson could "swallow a self-evident anti-Semitic bigot and life-threatening bully such as Louis Farrakhan...
...evening's keynote speaker was Dr. Kenneth Clark, the author of the influential report cited by the Supreme Court Justice in the Brown decision. But though Clark called up images of controversies that many like to pretend are over, he was far from nostalgic. At the time of Brown. Clark recalls, he was proud of the decision and his role in it, but also troubled, when the Court cited his study of the effects of segregation on Black and white children, the Justices had entirely deleted the section discussing the effects of segregation on white children, almost...