Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Swingers: that word is not so much dirty as stale. It evokes the musty air of Rat Pack swagger, when Frank and Dino passed for arbiters of hip machismo. Man, did the chicks dig it! Anyway, that's what the young L.A. layabouts in Swingers pretend to think, playing it oh so cool with the "babies" and thinking they're classy when ordering pricey Scotch--something with "Glen" in its name. They bop to the knowing bounce of Louis Jordan, Bobby Darin, Basie and Bennett and the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy band, and check out Sinatra Night at the Lava...
...mend his boss's innumerable gaffes. When Mayor Randall Winston (played by Barry Bostwick with an unfortunate excess of dimwittedness) slights the gay community, Flaherty jauntily cooks up a scheme to convince the press that the administration is not bigoted by trying to force a straight staff member to pretend...
...Saturday, September 21. The e-mail I receive from the IOP about HYPE '96 teases, "MTV will be there, will you?" so I arrive at the MAC Quad early, determined to pigeonhole one of the station's bigwigs. Ready to pretend I'm a journalist, I have a few questions written on a note card about MTV's role in the political process: "Are 'Choose or Lose' specials and the 'Week in Rock' programs objective news accounts? Doesn't MTV's hosting of a ball at the Clinton inaugural imply a partisan leaning? But if CBS held an inaugural ball...
...general, have lost something valuable in their embrace of multiculturalism. What they have lost is a proven system of dealing with the world, a system based on classical philosophy and Christian scripture. But that system was far from perfect, as we are constantly being reminded--and Choi can't pretend that before the universities were secularized, they turned out only saints...
...hope that they are committed to reviewing [randomization] and the needs of minority students," Guzenar said. "We all want to pretend that race doesn't matter, but it does. It matters to all students...