Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incredible?" Remember: chances are you're every bit as incredible as anyone else here, but don't let that assumption develop into overweening arrogance. The best approach is to play the game without sacrificing substance for style. It's probably healthy to dip into the fray, rather than pretend to rise well above it by hanging out with those people you knew before you came here...
...sole property of the omni-virginal You and vestal She. Despite the synicism with which he regards himself, the hold-out is even in Browne, who incoming through artistic puberty has wised up to the ironies and fallacies implicit in holding out, yet held onto the faith he may pretend to have forsaken. He emerges here, alongside the hold-out he's likely to keep pursuing, as a somewhat jaded ingenue...
...needs it even more urgently this year. The problem is 'not that blacks will desert to Carter's rivals. Reagan's conservative positions turn them off, and John Anderson remains an unknown, although he displayed engaging candor when he told the N.A.A.C.P. convention: "I cannot pretend to know what it is day in and day out to be black in America." The threat to Carter is that blacks may be so disappointed with his performance that they may not vote in large enough numbers to help him take key states that he captured...
Reagan's public reticence about them comes partly from his strong sense of privacy. It also comes, say his aides, from Nancy Reagan's extreme sensitivity to Reagan's marriage to Jane Wyman. Nancy, the mother of the two younger children, would like to pretend that the first marriage never happened. Reagan caters to this sensitivity, and that is why there was so little mention of the marriage and the children in his autobiography. In fact, some friends think that the extreme closeness of Reagan and Nancy has created a barrier for all the children...
...balls the same way. The Borg topspin thus was born. By all that is classic in the sport, everything about Borg's strokes was wrong. But his mother remembers one thing that was right: "Even then he loved to play. Even then he hated to lose. Even in his pretend games, he always wanted...