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Word: pretenders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...open my veins in the bath." He resents the very existence of critics: "Twenty years of being reconstituted in newsprint has worn me out." With extravagantly pouty self-mockery, he sums up: "My life has consisted of asking people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretend they are somebody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Farewell to Soap Bubbles | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...office draw. "People want fairy tales in their lives, and I'm lucky enough to provide them," Ford says with a touch of cynicism. "There is no difference between doing this kind of film and playing King Lear. The actor's job is exactly the same: dress up and pretend." Nonetheless, he wanted Han to do something different in Jedi, and that was to die. "I thought it would give the myth some body. Han Solo really had no place to go. He's got no papa, he's got no mamma, he's got no story. But that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Galloping Galaxies! | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...long-distance calls. It turned out that in March alone 2,509 calls went to a single New York City number. What for? A 57-second recorded message that titillates dialers with aural sex, specifically the breathless sounds of an ersatz liaison in which the imaginative caller can pretend that he (or she) is a participant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aural Sex | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

...many issues that confront this generation--too many for one play. There are too many hands, too many cooks hovering over this soup. The nightmare of potential nuclear bolocaust is more than any one person or any one theater collective can tackle, and it is dishonest to pretend otherwise. TheaterWork's Out Out is much more brilliant and provocative when it focuses on the big picture's tiny details--when it brings to the surface those horrifying moments which are the truth of life in wartime...

Author: By Kathleen I. Kouril, | Title: Too Many Cooks | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

Throughout the discussion Moore tries to help students understand the organization of the office from a lawyer's point of view "Pretend you're from Harvard Law School," he says. "What is motivating him as a D A ?" "He wants to move on to bigger and better things," is the reply amidst a ripple of chuckles...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Producing Public Policy | 4/8/1983 | See Source »

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