Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Talk to that person you used to know but now pretend you don't. (That guy or girl from your first-year dorm or that really great section you both hated...
...station with varying degrees of enthusiasm for the performer. Some take the "first row" in front of the musician, directing their full attention to the show. Others maintain a comfortable distance from Pumla, glancing frequently to catch a glimpse of the singer. And then there are those who pretend not to even notice the underground attraction, staring at the tracks, seemingly mesmerized by the scuffling mice below. But at least a handful of members from each of these groups end up emptying their pockets for Pumla before they board...
...different views suggested to them as they wait for their bus ride to class, while others feel compelled to voice their counter argument. Still, some can do nothing but tug at those advertisements and toss them in the trash, omitting any possible threat that they perceived. They simply pretend those opinions don't exist...
...also gay, and he set a trend in Hollywood by living openly with his lover, Jimmie Shields. When the political waters changed around the early 1930s, Haines refused to play the studio "game"--to repudiate Jimmie, to enter into a sham marriage as so many other actors did, to pretend to be what he wasn't. And it is this that precipitated his early exit from the movies, around 1934. Now the biographer and journalist William J. Mann, fascinated by Haines's colorful rise and fall in the film world and his unique refusal to cave in to the studio...
...talk about [being over the limit] for awhile, then we pretend the problem doesn't existand then we count again," Liz says, laughing. "Iknow you have to have a limit, but people don'tcome...