Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PRETEND for a moment that you are a first-year law student. You've worked hard all semester, you've participated in class, you've done the reading. Then you sit down at the three-hour final exam, and you freeze up. C-on the exam means C-for the course...
...custumary takes over. With furry pelts of calico and feline eyes of green, the cast members pounce from the stage into the audience, pawing and purring into surprised faces. Moving together as in an acrobatic ballet, gliding, jumping, and somersaulting, the actors truly resemble the animals they pretend (or maybe, aspire) to be. With the actors slinking on stage, the lights flashing and stroking, the carefully sculptured trash set, eerily bathed in an artificial moonlight glow, the illusion is complete. Only then are we ready to enter the world of the Jellicle Cats...
...Expos 5 is coming about because we have discovered that the number of people arriving at Harvard unprepared to write is on the increase," Christine Flug, an Expos tutor and the program's designer, said yesterday. "The problems are getting severe nationwide, and it is silly to pretend that it doesn't touch our people," she explained...
...best thing is getting people to deal with the fact that they're sexually active, and feel comfortable with what they're doing," one women says, adding. "A lot of people pretend to themselves that they're not sexually active. But by seeking contraception, they're admitting that they are, and [facing] the risk of getting pregnant...
...case officers had to publish, so you'd recruit one of the townsmen to go out and pretend to get the news you wanted to print," he said, adding that when the U.S. effort reached its nadir, officers were ordered to stop reporting on the corruption of the South Vietnamese army...