Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MARCIA CLARK DISLIKES JUDGE LANCE Ito. She felt she had to pretend to play a deferential, submissive female role with him. According to one source, the judge bears no fondness for Clark either. But he was also a goad to the defense lawyers, who had to trek into Ito's chambers to see to what they called his "petty needs." Says defense attorney Peter Neufeld: "I was very disappointed with Judge Ito, the fact that he was so concerned with his status as a celebrity, his willingness to entertain personalities in chambers, to show the lawyers little videotapes of skits...
...Travolta's apparent indifference to the upward and downward lurches of his career that draws him the nervous attention he has trouble comprehending. People in the movie business like to pretend they inhabit a rational universe, one where you can determine a star's course through a series of well-plotted career moves. Strolling equably through a universe he implicitly defines as chaotic, playing what amounts to a real-life Chili Palmer--mannerly, sweet-spirited, yet utterly confident of his own strength--Travolta calls all their operating assumptions into question. And deepens his own mystery...
...Americans, the lesson of Bosnia should be the same lesson we thought we had learned from World War II: The U.S. must support the forces of democracy around the world. We cannot recede into the background and pretend that we are just one of the member states of the United Nations. Be it at Dunkirk or Gorazde, the embattled disciples of democracy look to the U.S. for more than just funds and materiel...
...suffers from a lack of mandate, a lack of institutionalized power, and a resulting lack of legitimacy in the eyes both of students and the administration. The council is just another extra-curricular activity, a dress-up game in which members pretend to be representing and governing. Incongruently, this one extra-curricular activity gets its funding straight out of students' term bills, claiming to be on a higher plane than, say, Model Congress. Initiatives in past years to take that funding away from the U.C. speak directly to students' view of the council's legitimacy and representation. It has none...
...pretend I'm going to find the silver bullet, the solution, but I do hope to stimulate dialogue," he said...