Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pulled by strings. The Edison Twins is a kind of scientific Hardy Boys in which 16-year-old twins discover the meaning of life and thermodynamic entropy. You and Me, Kid features a Pied Piper-like host who leads children through such activities as storytelling and "let's pretend" fantasies...
Sherry's father would take her out of school one day a week and drive her to "secret places," including motels. He would pretend that he was going to hang her or he would put her in a coffin-like box before abusing her sexually. Still, she says, "when father wasn't being horrible, he was the person in the family who loved me most." She blames her mother for not ending her torment. Sherry developed multiple personalities, married and divorced an abusive man ("He was going to kill me"), has a teen-age son, now works...
...fundraiser delivered a badly needed shot in the arm to the staff, but many are still disillusioned and angered by the events of the past months. "You cannot go into an organization, fire one-third of the workforce, drive up to the guardrail of bank ruptcy, and pretend that nothing has happened," news correspondent William Drummond said recently. Drummond, who last month left NPR to teach journalism at the University of California, urged other employees to follow suit and find jobs elsewhere...
Despite such criticism, Clark, 51, has grown increasingly self-confident. When he went to Washington 2½ years ago as Alexander Haig's deputy, Clark did not even pretend to be well informed on foreign affairs. "I had to start pretty much from ground zero and educate myself on subjects I'd never thought about before," he said. He was at his desk before 7 a.m. six and sometimes seven days a week, working his way through endless stacks of paper and earning the respect of his State Department colleagues. He played his role modestly and effectively, smoothing...
...cannot go into an organization, five one-third of the work force, drive up to the guardrail of bankruptcy, and pretend that nothing has happened," Drummond explained, adding that he worries that NPR's shows will he affected by "the primal scare that has been dealt the stall in the past two weeks...