Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same hustle when the casinos came to town 20 years ago. Today, Bryant's neighborhood is the last stable, middle-class, mostly black area in all of boom-or-bust Atlantic City. Bryant says she's not against new casinos, she's against uprooting good neighborhoods so outsiders can pretend they're in Shangri-La. "Steve Wynn must have something good on these people. The state is bickering about having to pay $200 million for public education by an order of the Supreme Court, but they'll spend $300 million to build a private driveway for a billionaire...
...World. What it has to offer the jaded Old World is its fresh eye and unspoiled candor. When Stewart goes to Washington as Mr. Smith, a band of amused journalists ask him what he knows about governmental procedure or the passing of bills. His answer: "I don't pretend to know." And that too is a guarantee of virtue. Mr. Smith's first name is Jefferson, after the man who said that a plowman is wiser than a professor when it comes to essential things...
...have any hair, I wouldn't have any recollection of who I was. That's not why I did it in the first place. But it became that. And it did become then, after years, a thing I would do almost as punishment to myself. I wanted to pretend to be tough...
This is not entirely his fault. The screenwriters, Randall McCormick and Jeff Nathanson, and the director, Jan de Bont, have no interest in providing their actors with stuff to act. Their job is to keep the whammos coming. Our job is to sit there, absorb the blows and pretend to like their cold expertise. With De Bont's quick wit and tense minimalism on the first Speed still fresh in mind, that's hard work...
JOHN MC CAIN OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY "Your character is what you are to yourself, not what you pretend to be to yourself or others. We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves...I am confident you will find honor in your choices when the hard choices arrive at your door. You need not go to war to find them...