Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book treats "arguments about group differences in the reality of America," said Gould, who wrote The Mismeasure of Man. "You can't pretend that somehow has nothing to do with race...
...pretend that the Undergraduate Council is or can be representative of student opinion, or that it can or will act on our behalf? No one cares about it, and its members perennially return the feeling. The council is an impotent farce...
...confused and, having perfected their procrastination techniques, often know a great deal about the minute details of the O.J. Simpson saga. When two get together they will in fact often try to discuss the case, since each of them is involved in research that no-one else can even pretend to find interesting...
...frequently, I too would escape the high-school, let's-at-least-pretend-to-be-grown-ups world in which I normally functioned to descend to his cavern, trying to understand the man. Or at least to spend time with him--as if he were a child of my own divorced marriage and I had been granted only the most infrequent of visitation rights...
Most of the renditions have an engagingly primitive sound; it's as if the boys told themselves, "Let's get on the radio, pretend it's John's basement and have some fun." Sometimes they fiddle with (or bollix up) the chord structure of the original tune. On a few songs they finesse the lyrics (George's vocal on Roll Over Beethoven alters "Dig these rhythm and blues" to "Dig these heathen blues") or finically polish the grammar (John's "You've really got a hold on me"). Some of their covers (Young Blood, Johnny B. Goode) sound sluggish, anemic...